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a " scarbh." Shot three couples of golden plover and a few grey 

 guillemots. 



2Qth. Shot red-legged gull, and sent it to Edinburgh to be 

 stuffed. 



February 2nd. Drew loon. 



th. To Fiddra in ' Scarbh ' to shoot ducks. Saw flocks of 

 three dozen bernacle geese. Shot pigeon, hoody crow, and gulls. 

 1 6th. Drew hoody crow, comparative table of gulls' bills, 

 legs, and quills, and a sketch of Ardfinaig. 



\*lfh. Shot a ring-dotterel, gillebride (oyster-catcher). 



23rd. Drew map of Mull and of lona. Shot curlew, ring- 

 dotterel, redshank, puffin. 



March 2nd. Shot buzzard at Tunisnaleuth. 



3rd. Drew buzzard, diver or loon, great northern diver 

 for Mr Wood of Eichmond, Yorkshire. 



June 1 5 th. Sailed all round the islets to collect eggs, chiefly 

 terns and kittiwakes ; nine dozen eggs 



. July 22nd. Mr Keddie's visit ; botanising with him ; picnic 

 to Staffa ; fine sport. 



June . Became acquainted with two ornithological 



gents from Glasgow Mr Kemp and Mr Gibb. 1 They had shot 

 a shearwater. Promised to send them some stormy petrels. 



1 Mr John Gibb, merchant, Glasgow, died in March 1885. Mr John Kemp, 

 born in 1775, attained the great age of 100 years. He was the most faithful and 

 dear friend and companion of Mr Gibb in all their wild sports together. Both 

 these gentlemen were enthusiasts in field sports and athletic exercises, and were 

 naturalists of no mean capacity. They were well-known Scottish sportsmen of 

 their time, and from the records in our possession it appears that scarcely a 

 Hebridean, Orkney, or Shetland island had remained unvisited by them, both in 

 summer and winter. We have not been able to trace, however, as yet any literary 

 remains from the pens of either sportsman, though such would, if they do exist, 



