458 SULA BASSANA. 
Mr. Ussher's Collection, at the same time as those from the Bull Rock, which 
is not far distant (§ 5183). The gentleman last named gives (Birds of 
Treland, p. 157) a figure of this fine station from a photograph taken by 
Capt. Barrett-Hamilton from Mr. Evans’s yacht when we visited it in 1899.] 
[§ 5189. Zwo.—Eldey (Melsekken), S.W. Iceland, 7 June, 
1879. From Herr E. Lehn Schidler, through Herr 
Herluf Winge, 1905; and Dr. Otto Ottosson, 1906. 
Herr Schidler has since been so good as to inform me that these eggs were 
received from Herr Nielsen, of Eyrarbakki, who told him that one Hjalti 
J6nsson with four other men, two of whom were professional fowlers from the 
Westman Islands, went out to Eldey, and when near the rock rowed to it 
in their boat. The weather being fairly calm they landed—their object being 
to ascertain the quantity and quality of the “guano” upon it. They 
hammered big iron nails into the steep side of the cliff so as to reach the top. 
This was accomplished by one man standing on the shoulders of his com- 
panions, and by a jump throwing himself over the edge. Then a rope was 
lowered and all the others followed. ‘There they collected a vast quantity of 
eggs, thirty of which came to Herr Nielsen, who blew them himself. The 
men told him that they thought there were 10,000 pairs of Gannets; but upon 
Herr Schidler asking whether it was not rather 10,000 birds, Herr Nielsen 
said he could not be sure. I feel very grateful to all concerned for the 
possession of these specimens, obtained at so much risk and from a locality so 
interesting as the last home of Alca impennis, which was most likely ascended 
on this occasion for the first time, as the Kyrkjuvogr people, in their several 
expeditions after the Gare-fowl, never thought of going further than the 
sloping undercliff frequented by that bird, above which rises a sheer wall 
of rock. ] 
[§ 5190. One.—Sulaskér, Westman Islands, 15 June, 1899, 
From Herr E. Lehn Schidler, through Herr Herluf 
Winge, 1905. 
Received by Herr Schidler from Herr Hafstein, of Oddeyri.] 
[§ 5191. Zwo.—Grimsey, North Iceland, 27 June, 1903. 
From Herr Bernard Hantzsch, 1905. 
Most kindly sent to me by Herr Hantzsch, author of ‘ Vogelwelt Islands,’ 
who himself obtained them with two other specimens at Grimsey, the most 
northern breeding-station of the species known. One of them, he wrote, 
was fresh with a pale yellow yelk, and weighed 104 grammes, the other had 
been incubated perhaps two or three weeks and weighed 108 grammes. Its 
shell is much soiled. In Herr Hantzsch’s work (p. 67) is a view of the 
Grimsey Gannet-cliffs. | 
