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412 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Newton gives no authority. Newton had a correspondent or 
correspondents in Faroe, and he knew Herr Muller. 
I give the passage which I find in Herr Miuller’s MS., 
written by him up to date of 1894, when he gave it to Harvie- 
Brown at Thorshavn :— 
‘“‘ Det forste Sted hvor den satte siq fast var paa den West- 
lige side, Nordliqst paa Sudero.”’ 
“The first place where it settled was on the western side, 
towards the north of Sudero.”’ 
There is no doubt about the word ‘‘ Westlige side’’—towards ! 
the north of Sideroe, or rather the superlative of towards = 
“‘nordwardst of Sideroe,’’ says the translator of the passage. 
Can any misconception of the passage have occurred to confuse 
this with Mygganaes? Does anything occur in the Danish to 
lead to the conception that ‘‘ on the western side”’ refers to the 
entire group of the Faroes, and that further it may read the 
superlative ‘“‘nordwardst”’ from Sideroe. If not, it must remain 
a puzzle how Mygganaes Holm has been credited as the locality 
of its first occupier, on Newton’s authority. Yet Mygganaes 
Holm does appears to be more likely than Suderoerne ! 
Colonel Feilden, in correspondence with Harvie-Brown during 
the preparation of this paper, says: “‘I am perfectly satisfied 
and convinced that Newton had good reason for giving Mygganaes 
as the first Fulmar settlement in these islands’; and Feilden 
further adds a remark with which, I think, all will agree, as the 
present writer does: ‘‘ My reason,” says Feilden (in lit. as above), 
“for accepting his statement is that his veneration for John 
Wolley was so great that never would he have put aside the 
latter’s statements unless he had an absolute basis of fact to go 
by.” And Iam glad to find also that Feilden perfectly agrees 
with the present writer in that; as he puts it: ‘‘ 1t seems almost 
a certainty that the Atlantic roaming Fulmar would adopt the 
isolated western and almost inaccessible Mygganaes (holm) for 
its first settlement, and not the more protected and inland site 
of Qualboe.”’ 
Though the following information is not strictly chrono- 
logical, we think it advisable to give it here, as having some 
direct connection with what has preceded it. 
When Harvie-Brown was in the yacht ‘ Daydream,’ and that 
