THE FULMAR. 383 
of Cape Wrath.’* Truly speaking, these lie north-west of Cape 
Wrath, and north-east of the Butt of Lewis, and with these 
angles of an equilateral triangle form the apex to the north, 
as already shown under the notes on Ronay. 
Thus, as will be seen, and as I hope finally to prove, con- 
fusion again became repeated (2. e. repeated from Charts and 
Books of Directions of the Admiralty, carried down and still in- 
creased in confusion to December, 1910), as I will show later on. 
Again, Mr. Robert Gray, writing on and referring to previous 
statements without authorities, still further complicates the 
matter by saying: ‘‘ But [the Fulmar] has now entirely aban- 
doned that locality—+. e. the Isles of South Barray—none having 
been seen there in the breeding season since 1844,” Mr. R. 
Gray gives no authority for the original statement—not even 
Mr. Atkinson; a very considerable confusion also being quite 
apparent in several people’s minds as between Fulmars and 
Manx Shearwaters. It is many years since that confusion was 
cleared up as regards stated nesting-places of the Fulmar in 
Skye, in Mull, and—by native spokesmen—‘‘ in many places in 
Skye,’ besides the one specified to Gray by Cameron, of Glen 
Bhreatal.t Andit seems almost unnecessary to repeat here that 
the evidence quoted by Mr. Gray, on the authority of ‘‘ the light- 
house-keeper at Barra Head’? some years previous to said 
information (op. cit. under Shearwater, p. 503), is quite too vague 
and confused to warrant any belief in the Fulmar ever having 
nested at Barra Head, and certainly not within the memory of 
any man then alive. Here the confusion is not in the names of 
places, but in the identities of the two species. It seems to me 
to be evident, from Mr. Gray’s statements, that he simply 
desired to express the one fact that, ‘‘so far as his knowledge of 
these Hebridean Isles was within his own grasp, no Fulmars 
had been seen at Barra Head in the breeding season since 
1844,” but he does not affirm on his own account that they did 
breed there before that date, nor does he quote Atkinson, and 
* «* Har to the north of Cape Wrath” might lead to the supposition by 
the unwary reader that the Stack and Skerry Rocks, erroneously called also 
Suliskerry, were intended as so situated, 2. ec. the two groups having changed 
places! J. Wolley: ‘‘ Observations on the Ornithology of the Faroe Isles”’ 
[(sic) Col. H. W. Feilden corrects this, however, to ‘“‘ The Faroes”’| in 
‘ Contributions to Ornithology’ (1850). 
+ ‘ Birds of the West of Scotland,’ pp. 449-500. 
