3286 THE ZooLoGist—NovEMBER, 1872. 
of Myggenes, the most western island of the group. There, on 
two isolated stacks, called Pujgarsdrengur and Fleatidrengur, 
they breed in great numbers; also on the north-eastern face of the 
Holm. I visited Myggenes on the 14th of June, but unfortunately 
the sea was too rough to admit of my crossing to the Holm, from 
the island; I had therefore to content myself with walking to the 
western end of the island, which overlooks one of the breeding- 
places: from there I counted one hundred and thirty-six gannets 
sitting on eggs, or standing near their nests. The two detached 
stacks at the western extremity of the Holm, already referred to, 
were white with these birds. Svabo, writing in 1782, mentions 
that this bird, after hatching its two eggs and rearing its young, 
disappears from Myggenes on the 10th November. The old ones 
are caught in the middle of April, when the nests are built, but no 
eggs in them; when the wind is blowing on the coast, with hail, 
they sleep the soundest. The young ones are taken three weeks 
before the 29th September. The old ones are taken twice in the* 
spring, to the number of two hundred; the yearly take of young 
ones is about the same. The 25th January is a festival in 
Myggenes, in consequence of the arrival of the gannets. One of 
these birds is considered equivalent to six puffins for food. -The 
young one with down on it is called “Ompel.” These remarks of 
Svabo apply with full force to the present day. Wolley (Cont. 
Orn. 1850, p. 113) mentions, “ The name ‘Sula,’ I was told, has a 
reference to its quickness of sight. It is worthy of note that each 
nation modifies the root of a name to some signification in its own 
language, as Mr. Strickland has admirably illustrated in his 
etymology of the word ‘Dodo.’ ‘Sula’ is Soland, ‘Jan Van Gent’ 
is Gannet, and perhaps both these last from the German ‘ Gans.” 
118. Sterna hirundo, Linn. Arctic Tern. Nalive name, 
Tedna.—Is the Sterna brachytarsa of Graba (Reise nach Faro. p. 
218, 1830), and is, I believe, the only species of tern found in the 
Feroe Islands. Landt writes, “It comes to Fezroe about the 
middle of May, and remains till Michaelmas. It is seen 
everywhere, but in some places in immense numbers. It lays 
two eggs in the uncultivated fields where the soil is bad: they 
are the best tasted of all those found in the country.” Wolley, in 
referring to this bird, says, “‘I found no other species.” Owing to 
the coldness of the weather, the first I noticed were in Suderoe, on 
the 25th of May, ten days later than their usual time of arrival. I 
