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Bullock, the other having been killed before, and quite likely in 

 the manner mentioned by Mr. Traill. The bird chased by 

 Bullock, and afterwards killed and sent him, was almost certainly 

 killed in the summer of 1813, and after Bullock had printed his 

 Catalogue for that year, as there is no mention of it until his 

 Catalogue of 1814. 



Bullock made two voyages to Orkney and Shetland in the 

 spring and autumn of 1812, as he expressly mentions at page 46 

 of his Companion to the London Museum, printed in 1816. 



Trading, perhaps rather too much, on a preconceived notion, 

 that the Great Auk could only land on a very sloping rock, 

 which must at all events be accessible to the bird at all stages 

 of the tide, Buckley, in 1888, walked round Papa Westray, to 

 find out where such suitable localities existed. He saw several 

 such sites, and, in 1889, Harvie-Brown went there to photograph 

 the most likely one in company with Mr. Norrie. It was while 

 engaged in this work that they derived some most interesting 

 information from one of the natives James Hourstoun and 

 we here insert the whole account, verbatim, from Harvie- 

 Brown's Journal : 



"June 30th, arrived in Pierowall roads. 



" July 1st. Having engaged an Orkney boat and two men, 

 Mr. Norrie and I sailed across to Papa Westray in pursuance of 

 instructions in Buckley's letter couched in the following terms : 



" 'Look on the west side of Papa Westray and tell me what 

 you think about its likelihood for being the nesting place (query, 

 m^7i</-place ? H.-B.), of the Great Auk. One place in parti- 

 cular struck me as being very likely indeed for it ; and if Norrie 

 is still with you, have it photographed, as it would make a plate. 

 The place I mean is a long shelving rock some fifty yards or 

 more, as far as I remember, and it would be accessible to the 

 birds at all states of the tide, besides being pretty well out of 

 the surf as regards all ordinary summer gales.' 1 



"With the above to guide us, we landed nearly opposite 

 Pierowall, and walked about three miles by the road direct to 

 the Mull, or north-east end of Papa. 



1 The points particularly to be noted as direct finger-posts in these directions 

 are italicised. 



