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remark, and to suggest that when he made it he had St. Kilda 
in his mind as well as the Iceland localities. * 
Continuing in chronological authors’ sequence, we find that 
the increase of these birds in Faroe has been a fairly steady one, 
if slow, whichever site was first occupied. Herr Muller gave 
Colonel Feilden all his information to date of the latter’s visit 
to Faroe, and these and the writings of Wolley and Muller’s 
‘ Faeroernes Fuglefauna’ were utilized by Colonel Feilden in his 
notes on the birds of these isles in 1872.t There we find the 
additional stations occupied, viz. Mygganaes, Videroe, and Fugloe, 
and these Colonel Feilden added from his own observation ; and 
he draws my attention to the fact that Wolley does not say that 
Qualboe (he writes Quelboe) was the first colony of Fulmars, but 
**somewhere about the year 1839 it was observed by the rock- 
climbers, breeding for the first time near Qualboe im Suderoe.” 
Feilden adopted Wolley’s statement, but Feilden adds: “‘I do 
not say it was the first colony to arrive in the Faroes”’ (in lit. to 
the present writer, Jan. 30th, 1912). 
Whilst Herr Miiller, both in his printed account (vide ante) 
and in his information given to Colonel H. W. Feilden, gives 
Suderoe as locating their first arrival there, followed by most of 
the later authorities and supported by Wolley, it is a little 
puzzling to find that the late Prof. A. Newton, in the tenth 
edition of the ‘Encyclopedia Britannica’ (1879), and in his 
‘Dictionary’ (1893), credits Mygganaes Holm—the furthest 
western island of the Faroes—as receiving the earliest pioneers, 
and the statement reappears in the eleventh edition of the 
‘Encyclopedia Britannica,’ as revised by Dr. Chaliners Mitchell 
without alteration (1910). The passage is as follows: ‘‘ North- 
ward it established itself about 18388 on Mygganaes Holm—one 
of the Faroes.” Perhaps later on, and chronologically, this may 
come to be explained. It may be said, however, in this place 
that, whilst Newton’s statement is contrary to previous writers, 
and is therefore somewhat puzzling, it is also worthy of note, by 
careful readers of the Norsk and possible (?) alternative transla- 
tions, that some reason may be found for it, more especially as 
* «© Some Observations on the Birds of the Faroe Isles”? (Jardine’s ‘ Con- 
tributions to Ornithology’ for 1850). 
+ ‘* The Birds of the Faroe Islands”’ (‘ Zoologist,’ 1872). 
