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were there, mending their nests. Nota single egg laid: 1700 young 
were taken in 1850, about half, 
[Two of these eggs, marked “J. W. ipse,” are very small, measuring 2°75 by 
1:67 inch, the largest of the whole is 3:26 by 2:01 inches. | 
§ 5176. Twenty-four —Bass Rock, 1851. 
I received twelve dozen Solan Goose eggs from George Adams in 
the summer of 1851. When they arrived at Beeston they had been 
taken for some weeks, and most of them were more or less tending 
to rottenness. Inside, many of them had assumed in the skin, or 
parts of it, a beautiful carmine colour, which had affected more 
or less the soft parts of the egg. I did not examine it with the 
microscope. 
(Mr. Wolley notes that about a dozen of these eggs were broken in the 
journey. Mr. Walter and Dr. Frere had each three, and Mr. Hancock two dozen. 
Others of the remaining three dozen must have been otherwise distributed, 
but the twenty-four now in the collection no doubt sufficiently represent the 
original large number. | 
§ 5177. Twelve—Myggenes-holm, Fede, not later than 1856. 
From Sysselmand Miller. 
The Gannet we failed to visit at Myggenes-holm. The men 
considered the sea too rough, though this might be an excuse, as 
they were afraid of the fever [reported to be raging on Myggenes 
itself]. We got nearly halfway out to Myggenees, and saw some of 
the birds flying over. Landt says [ Beskrivelse over Feréerne, p. 259 ; 
Engl. Transl. p. 237] that if they had good luck they caught two 
hundred in the spring, and as many of the young in autumn. It 
seems therefore that it is not so numerous as on the Bass. 
[The above was written by Mr. Wolley on his return from the Feeroes in 
1849. These eggs are the first that he received from that locality, of which a 
good account, attributed to Sir George Dasent, was given in ‘ The North 
British Review’ for May, 1864 (no. lxxx. pp. 321-323). One was sold at 
Mr. Stevens’s, 23 February, 1858, to Mr. Shepherd, and I gave one each to 
Mr. Percy Godman, Dr. Heermann, and Mr. J. H. Gurney. | 
[§ 5178. One.—Bass Rock, 1854. From Mr. Evelyn Fairlie. } 
[§ 5179. Zwo.—Bass Rock, 1855. From Mr. Southwell.] 
