404. FRATERCULA ARCTICA. 
his boat, women-servants pulling. They were very particular in 
preventing us from firing for fear of startling the climbers, who 
remain on these ledges for several days or even weeks, and provisions 
are let down to them. Boats go out to take the birds they throw 
down. On a holm, like the Doreholm in Shetland, between 
Tindholm and the main island Vaagée, is a chain hanging down like 
a bell-rope, to assist in climbing to the slope where Lundis breed. 
They are dressed and dried. 
(It appears that Mr. Wolley’s visit in 1849 was too late in the season for 
him to obtain any eggs himself. I have had the sketch of the hand-net copied 
and inserted here, though Landt (Beskrivelse over Feréerne, tab. ii. fig. 7) 
figures it well; because I believe that its use is being given up. | 
§ 4941. Twelve—Orkney, 1851. From Mr. George Harvey, 
of Stromness. 
§ 4942. Siv—Ferobe, 1851. From Sysselmand Winther. 
Out of about fifty-six sent me by Mr. Winther. Very few well 
marked. 
§ 4943. Three.—Feerde, 1852. From Sysselmand Miiller. 
§ 4944. Five-—Ferde, 1853. From Sysselmand Winther. 
§ 4945. Zwo.—Horné, East Finmark, 31 May, 1855. 
CoM 
[These were not entered by Mr. Wolley in the Egg-book. They are 
inscribed ‘ Common Puffin,” no doubt to shew that he was sure that they did 
not belong to the northern form Fratercula glacialis. | 
§ 4946. One-—Wardo Island, East Finmark, 1855. From 
Lehnsmand Reen. 
§ 4947. Four.—Feroe, 1859. From Sysselmand. Winther. 
{One of these is curiously shaped, measuring 2°77 by 1:74 inch, but cannot 
well be anything else than a Puffin’s. ] 
