ADDITIONS SINCE 1899. 331 



29th, 1902 (J. Steele-Elliott, ZooL, 1906, p. 154). One was 

 shot on June 6th, 1906, at Loop Head, co. Clare (R. M. Bar- 

 rington, Irish Nat., 1906, p. 193). The following were seen in 

 1906 by Mr. G. P. Farran, of the Fisheries Board, while 20-30 

 miles off the south-west coast : — One on October 16th off 

 Drogheda ; four on November 6th off Tearaght, co. Kerry ; 

 also seen in May (R. J. Ussher, t.c, 1907, pp. 163 and 184). 



LONG-TAILED SKUA Stercorarius parasiticus (L.). 

 S. page 693. 



Somerset. — One was shot on October 19th, 1903, at 

 Axbridge (S. Lewis, Zool., 1904, p. 461) ; said to be the fourth 

 for Somerset (F. L. Blathwayt, t.c, 1905, p. 36). 



Ireland.— An adult was caught on Clare Island, co. Mayo, 

 on June 14th, 1906 (R. M. Barrington, Irish Nat., 1906, p. 

 193). 



GREAT AUK Alca impennis L. S. page 697. 



The late Professor Newton in an interesting article on the 

 " Orcadian Home of the Garefowl " {Ibis, 1898, pp. 587-592) 

 explains that the breeding place of the Great Auk was on the 

 Holm of Papa Westray, and not in Papa Westray itself. 

 Professor Newton, in company with the late Henry Evans, 

 Colonel Bolland, and Mr. Joseph Whitaker, landed on the Holm 

 on June 27th, 1898, and visited the very spot which he thought 

 must have been the " true home of the species whose 

 extirpation, so far as Orkney is concerned, was compassed 

 in 1813 by Bullock." 



Bones of this species have been found in Antrim, Donegal, 

 and Clare, in addition to Waterford (R. J. Ussher, List of 

 Irish Birds, ^. 51, and Irish Nat., 1899, pp. 1-4, 1902, p. 188). 



BRUNNICH'S GUILLEMOT Uria bruennichi E. Sabine. 

 S. page 701. 



Yorkshire. — One was procured near Flamborough Head 

 in November, 1899, and one was shot about two miles off 

 Castle Foot on October 28th, 1902 (T. H. Nelson, Birds of 

 Yorks., p. 725). 



[On June 14th, 1908, when off the Pinnacle Rocks, Fame 

 Islands, in a boat, Messrs. H. B. Booth and Riley Fortune 

 saw a bird which they identified as an example of this species. 

 " .... it was not in full summer plumage, and it was the 

 fact of having more white upon its neck and lower throat in 

 contrast to its companions, the Common Guillemots, that 

 first drew my attention to it, and it was rather darker on the 



