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we have (or at least I have) had a very enjoyable holi- 

 day, and I shall be able to go back to work refreshed. 



I went into Scott's, the bird-stuffer at Oban, and saw 

 there a Diver which I advised him to show to you the 

 next time you call upon him. I don't say it is, but it 

 looks as if it might be a young example of Colymbus 

 adainsi. It is a wretchedly mounted thing, and has the 

 tip of its bill damaged by shot. He said it was got in 

 those parts (Sound of Mull, I think), and if so you 

 might like to compare it with a C. glacialis of the 

 same age, for I forget if it has a whitish bill or not. 

 This specimen certainly has. 



Evans says he was at Hychier off Canna about three 

 weeks ago and found only some half a dozen Terns 

 there, but no sheep. Those that were put on the island 

 last and destroyed the Ternery did badly, the owner 

 losing more than half. Serve him right ! 



I have been always looking out for a collision with 

 the Shiantelle and am sorry it did not come off. Write 

 to me at Cambridge. 



p.S. Off the Flannans we had a distant view of 

 St. Kilda and Barra.* 



The Shiantelle was Mr. Har vie- Brown's yacht, in 

 which for many years he made cruises about the Scottish 

 coasts and islands, collecting additional material for his 

 volumes on the Fauna of Scotland. During this year's 

 cruise he had planned to meet the Aster about the 

 Orkney Islands, but for some reason the scheme mis- 

 carried, and he consoled himself by writing the " Song of 

 the Shearwater," which he sent to Newton. 



PUFFINTTS GRAVIS, 

 Carmen Harveio-Brunneanum, more Kiplingiano. 



By the old North Rona chapel, looking southward to the sea, 

 There's a Shearwater a-aittin', an' I know she thinks o' me ; 



* Letter to J. A. Harvie-Brown, June 28, 1891. 



