402 URTA ALLE.—FRATERCULA ARCTICA. 
according to Herr Winge (Grénlands Fugle, p. 231), found the species breeding 
abundantly on this island. An egg beautifully marked with pale reddish- 
brown blotches, and kindly sent to me on that account by Herr Schioler. ] 
[§ 4935. Ove—Grimsey, 15 June, 1900. From Herr Schidler, 
1906. 
Received, as its donor informs me, from Herr Havsteen. glhis egg is much 
freckled at the larger end with fine brownish-red spots. ] 
[§ 4986. Zwo.—Cape Grant, Franz-Josef Land, 16 July, 1895. 
Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition, through’ Mr. Dresser, 
1905. 
These are unmistakably Rotches’ eggs, but they came to me under the 
name of “ Uria mandti”’, which species Mr. Jackson says (Thousand Days in 
the Arctic, ii. p. 408) he found “ nesting in small numbers amongst the 
Rotches, whose company it seemed to prefer as a rule ”’—the mistake could 
hence be easily made by anyone unacquainted with the eggs of the two 
species. He adds (tom. cit. p. 409) of the latter: “ We found incubated eggs 
at Cape Grant on July 14th, 1895.”] 
FRATERCULA ARCTICA (Linnzus). 
PUFFIN. 
§ 4937. Three—Flamborough, Yorkshire. Not later than 
1843. 
These are from Flamborough Head, where the birds breed in 
clefts of the rock. The specimens are unusually strongly marked. 
§ 4938. One.—Flamborough. From Mr. Williamson, 1847. 
§ 4939. Thirteen Handa, Sutherland, 9 June, 1849. 
‘The Puffin was far advanced in incubation. I got many of its 
eggs in holes in sloping banks on the sides of the cliff—little or no 
nest—the egg generally exceedingly dirty. The birds were easily 
