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diminished. Certainly its number is prodigious, and I have never attempted 
to estimate it, but Iam prepared to believe that there may be more Gannets 
there than in all the rest of the world beside. | 
[§ 5185. One.—Lundy Island, 1887. From Mr. Howard 
Saunders. 
This was kindly brought for me from Lundy Island, where Mr. Saunders 
had been staying during the summer, and reported, to my regret, that there 
were not more than fifteen or sixteen pairs of Gannets then breeding there. 
Kven this number, I understand, has now seriously decreased. | 
[§ 5186. Zwo.—Grasholm, South Wales, June, 1887. From 
Mr. Wilkinson, 1901. 
Kindly ‘sent to me by Mr. Wolley’s old friend, Mr. Clennell Wilkinson 
(cf. §§ 8406-8409), after a second visit he had paid to the Collection in 1901. 
He wrote with the egg :—“I cannot make out from any books I have when 
the Gannets first came to Grasholm; but they were there when I first went 
into Pembrokeshire about thirty years ago.” It is a bare rocky island, about 
twenty miles from the west coast of Pembrokeshire, he adds, and not likely 
for visitors to make excursions to it. The eggs “ were taken by the son of our 
village blacksmith, who had a small steam launch of his own, and sometimes 
took parties out for a cruise, but usually on Sundays, and so I was unable to 
go with him. He sometimes got other eggs beside the Gannets’, such as 
Razorbills’, Guillemots’, Puffins’, and Gulls’. These I send you I marked in 
pencil as to date and locality, lest they should get mixed with others. They 
were quite fresh and were blown by myself.” The history of this settlement 
is very obscure. Its existence was practically unknown to ornithologists 
(cf. § 5181) until 1890, when a wanton massacre of its inhabitants attracted 
general attention, though it is to be hoped that the accounts of it published in 
the newspapers were exaggerated. According to Mr. Murray Mathew (Birds 
of Pembrokeshire, pp. xxix and 60), there were in 1886 at least 250 nests “ in 
four separate colonies ” on the island, of which ke gives a photographic view. | 
[§ 5187. One.—Sulisgeir, 1887. From the late Mr. T. E. 
Buckley’s Collection. 
This is one of three received by Mr. Buckley from Mr. Harvie-Brown, and 
taken by the latter on his visit to this locality so diflicult of access (cf. Vertebr. 
Fauna of Outer Hebrides, p. xlix).] 
[§ 5188. Zwo.—Little Skellig, Co. Kerry, 4 May, 1891. 
From Mr. J. H. Gurney, 1905. 
Kindly given to me by Mr. Gurney, who obtained them at the sale of 
