386 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
and registration before is scarcely to be wondered at, but it is 
worth while to give here also what Rev. Geo. Low actually pub- 
lished, the finished MS. of which is said to have disappeared :— 
‘‘ The nearest land to Orkney where the Solan Goose breeds 
is a rock called the Stack of Soliskerry (sic), where many 
hundreds breed every year, as the Seals do on the Skerry”; and 
then he relates how “‘ some time ago a ship . . . brought back 
a great quantity of Solans,’’ and so forth.* 
We have given the above excerpt and the references for the 
reason already mentioned, and also because we think it should 
for ever set at rest the past and present confusion that exists. 
I do not intend to go over ground I have frequently traversed 
before to try and impress the truth, though my doing so has 
rather partaken of the nature of a ‘‘ voice crying in the wilder- 
ness.” But I cannot pass by the latest added confusion given so 
lately as in the Index Chart C of the ‘ Catalogue of the Admiralty 
Charts,’ dated 1911, and said to be corrected to date of December 
dist, 1910. 
I find here the misnomer (or error) repeated—‘“‘ Sule-Skerry ” 
(sic), and alongside it ‘‘ Stack-Skerry” (sic). If anything, this 
makes confusion worse confounded yet once more. There would 
be no confusion if the joint name ‘‘ Stack-and-Skerry ”’ were 
adopted, as I have heard it used as long ago as 1863, when 
residing for some six or seven weeks in Joseph Dunn’s house in 
Stromness. ‘‘Sule-Skerry”’ is a misnomer, because Gannets 
do not and never did frequent the Skerry, or ever willingly, I 
feel confident, ever place flat feet upon it. ‘‘ Sule-Skerry ” also, 
besides being a misnomer, is also merely a confusion of the 
colloquial expression, The Seal’s Skerry, as I have heard it used 
by the sealers, who, equally with the Stromness men, or, it may 
well be, subsequent to their visits, went out in October or 
November from Tongue; of which parties my old friend, the 
late Mr. John Crawford, of Tongue (factor to the Duke of 
Sutherland), used to be one participant, and his two sons also 
went up to the date of about 1870 to 1872, and as I can well 
remember they ‘‘ never went to the Stack,’ or Gannet Rock. 
Further, ‘‘ Stack-Skerry ” is a misnomer and an error as a 
place-name. That the Admiralty Office still remains in doubt 
* ¢ Fauna Orcadensis,’ &e., iv. p. 148, 
