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Numenius arquata. — A numerous resident, nesting near 

 Portree and Skeabost, and I suspect also at Leinisb. 



Sterna macrura. — Summer visitant, tbe predominating 

 species, I believe, at the Ascribs, but less numerous probably 

 than the Common Tern on Dunvegan Loch.^ In 1884 I shot 

 some in two localities, and obtained an equal number of each 

 species; but in 1885 the Common Tern seemed to have nearly 

 driven off the Arctic from Dunvegan Loch ; so too in 1886. 



Sterna fluviatilis. — Summer visitant, nesting on islands on 

 the south coast of Skye, as well as on the north-west. The 

 eggs are generally laid in a pretty substantial nest of dried 

 bents in low heather or in a tuft of sea pinks, but some are 

 deposited on the bare rock, or on a handful of dried sea ware. 

 On July 14, 1885, I found a single nest in a situation new to 

 me, i.e., in the centre of a strip of rushy ground. Most nests 

 contain three eggs or young when laying has succeeded. 



Lams minutus. — Accidental visitant. Captain Cameron 

 told me that he shot a little Gull, recorded by Mr E. Gray, 

 in 1865. 



Lams canus. — Eesident, nesting on the Ascribs and islands 

 in Dunvegan Loch. 



Lams argentatus. — Eesident, many pairs nesting on the 

 broken precipices of Waterstein, and great numbers at Lower- 

 gill. A few breed on the islands in Dunvegan Loch. 



Lams fuscus. — Eesident, nesting on the Ascribs and 

 Waternish Islands. 



Larus marinus. — Eesident, nesting on Eilon Isay, and 

 frequenting Loch Waterstein, though they do not breed 

 there. 



Lams glaucus. — Eare winter visitant. On April 10th, 

 1885, I observed a fine bird in a mob of L. argentatus and 

 L. fuscus, which were feeding on scraps thrown overboard 

 from the " Assistance," then lying in Dunvegan Loch. We 

 were rowing across the loch next day, when a distant shot 

 alarmed the Laridce collected around the troopship, and they 

 all winged their way to the west side of the loch. Larus 

 glaucus was one of the last to go, and alighted in the shallows, 

 resting buoyantly on the water. It appeared to the naked 



^ The Arctic Tern breeds numerously on an island near Struan. 



