THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 777.— March. 1906. 



AN OKNITHOLOGICAL VISIT TO THE FAROES. 



By Percy P. Bunyard. 



(Plate I.) 



With only three weeks at our disposal, this journey was 

 perhaps a rather big undertaking for so short a time ; however, 

 we succeeded in spending exactly sixteen days on the islands. 

 I was fortunate in having secured the companionship of another 

 known ornithologist, and was not only surprised at the amount of 

 ground we were able to cover, but, owing to the almost perpetual 

 daylight, always put in a good day's work. We left Leith en route 

 for the Faeroes at midnight on June 2nd, 1905, by the Danish 

 Ptoyal Mail Steamer ' Tjaldur.' After a fair and somewhat 

 uninteresting voyage we sighted the southernmost island of 

 Sydeio at 2 p.m. on the 4th, arriving at Trangjisvaag, our first 

 port of call, at 6 p.m. (Sunday evening). The view awaiting 

 us as we slowly steamed up the fjord was grand in the extreme ; 

 the quaint and straggling little town, with its green turf-roofed 

 houses, the spotlessly white spire of the kirk glittering in the 

 evening sun, and the mountains rising over one thousand feet 

 behind, made a fitting background for this already beautiful 

 landscape. 



It is not my intention here to again describe the beauty of 

 the islands, neither is it possible to do justice to them in the 

 limited space at my disposal ; suffice to say, though barren and 



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