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pairs were seen, and I afterwards picked up a broken egg on 

 Eilean Chlamraig. 



Herring gulls — certainly one of the most common and 

 widely spread species of gull on our coasts — was more or less 

 abundant at almost every suitable point of vantage. Eock 

 pipits were omnipresent. Arctic terns were breeding on Eilean 

 Chlamraig and Eilean Hoan, for which two low-lying islands 

 we ran after leaving Whiten Head. Eilean Chlamraig is 

 marked on the new Ordnance Survey map as 50 feet above 

 the sea at its highest point. Eilean Hoan is higher and 

 larger, reaching a height of 83 feet, and being 1 mile in 

 length. These islands are situated near Eispond, a little to 

 the west of the main entrance to Loch Eriboll. Eilean 

 Chlamraig is seamed and furrowed by the sea, and is com- 

 posed of limestone. Both islands hold colonies of terns, 

 herring and lesser black-backed gulls, oyster-catchers, etc. 

 We landed on them, but found few eggs, the great gales, as 

 our men remarked, having destroyed most of them a few days 

 before. After landing again at Eispond, my ghillie, John 

 Sutherland, and I walked over the hill to Loch an t' Sean, 

 and there met for the first time Mr D. Mackay of Portnacon. 

 Thereafter we returned to Durness in the trap, a drive of 

 about 5 miles. 



My next tour of inspection of these coast-lines was made 

 to Cape Wrath on the 19th June. 



John — my ghillie — and I walked to the ferry, rowed over 

 to the west side of the Kyle, and there met the horse and 

 driver who had come round at low tide by a route over the 

 sands, about 2 miles higher up the Kyle. On the way to 

 Cape Wrath, I fished a loch for a few hours, and then drove 

 on through a desolate country, to Cape Wrath. The view of 

 Cearvig Bay and a bit of the coast at the point where I stopped 

 is very fine, and includes the small but singularly shaped 

 pinnacles of rock which flank the eastern horn of the cliff 

 which encircles the pretty little sandy Cearvig Cove. The 

 moorland of this district is singularly bare and cold looking, 

 lying at a considerable elevation above the sea, and rolling 

 away inland in wavy undulations, rising into somewhat higher 

 ground about 3 or 4 miles to the southward, the home of the 



