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caught on the eggs*. One of them inscribed “ N.B.” is, I think, 
the most highly marked one I ever saw. 
[This egg is certainly extraordinary for its amount of marking, and, like 
Mr. Wolley, I never saw its equal. It is also inscribed “ Bird caught. J. W..,”’ 
and his initials are written on eight others, shewing that he took them with his 
own hands. | 
§ 4940. Lwenty.—Ferde, 1850. From Sysselmand Winther. 
The Puffin [in Fierde] was in myriads, literally looking like 
swarms of bees about the cliffs. Lille Dimon, where are the black 
Sheep, is perhaps the greatest station. This island is nearly in- 
accessible from the sea; but when once you get up the south-west 
corner, by a rather dangerous clamber, it is easy enough, as it slopes 
gradually to the top with intervening ranges or terraces of low cliffs. 
The ground in many parts of this island is completely undermined 
by the Puffins. I caught some of their young covered with very 
long grey down. We descended from the island by another track 
easy for us strangers as we were let down partly by ropes. In their 
flight these birds often cannot turn quickly enough to avoid the 
hand-net which is suddenly raised before them. [A rude sketch 
follows.| We saw parties engaged in this way in bird-catching 
down the cliffs at Enneberg, the north cape of Viderde. The 
minister was away watching the proceedings. We rowed home in 
* “Cogebantur tamen sibi cauere, ne rostris quibus magnis admodum aduncis 
preeditee sunt, vel in brachio vel crure prehenderétur, quod viribus valentes 
morsus inferre non leves solerent.”—De Bry, Pars [X. 
[This note is an extract from the account given by De Bry in 1613 (Supple- 
mentum none Partis Indie Orientalis, p. 22) of the voyage under Pieter 
Willemsz.-Verhuff or Verhoeff in 1607-1610, which Mr. Wolley must have read 
and copied during his Dodo researches (Memoir, p. xvi), for Dodos are the birds 
therein referred to. The passage is not quoted from De Bry by Strickland in his 
‘ Dodo and its Kindred,’ but he gives (p. 18) what he says is the earliest account 
in the original German from Hulsius. It was put together from the information 
of Johann Verken, a Saxon, according to Heer P. A. Tiele (Mémoire bibliographique 
sur les Journaux des Navigateurs Néerlandais, p. 178. Amsterdam: 1867), the 
compiler being Gotthard Artus.—Ep. | 
