94 REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 
unable to rise with it, so it towed it to the rocks, and allowed 
the sea to wash it up on the rocks. Some boys went after it, 
when it took to the water again, and pulled the fish to another 
rock, and again allowed the sea to wash it up, where it eat its 
supper in peace. 
Monach Isles—Donald Georgeson—Three quarterly schedules. 
Mr Georgeson’s schedules are able and masterly ; and if we could 
have all our schedules returned in a similar epitomised condi- 
tion, no doubt much time might be saved; but in the mean- 
time, schedules coming from a. few stations out of so many 
stations, so epitomised, whilst the rest adhere rigidly to the 
columnar arrangement, makes it. more troublesome to arrange 
details. Uniform attention to the columnar arrangement is 
simplest for the ledger work. 
The following is an abstract of Mr Georgeson’s three quar- 
terly schedules, and may be referred to under species in the next 
portion of the report :— | 
Mr Georgeson writes—“ This is an island little frequented by 
either land or sea birds. The only birds that struck the lantern 
were a few Snow Buntings and the Common Tern [Arctic Tern 
vera ?—J. A. H. B.] Towards the end of January we had a 
severe gale from the 8.W.” Mr G. found several Zerns and 
Snow Buntings “ dead from exposure.” ‘ The S.W.1s the prevail- 
ing wind here.’ (Explaining, perhaps, the above stated scarcity 
of birds, as pressing them more easterly on their S.E. course 
after doubling Butt of Lewis—J. A. H. B.) A single Snipe 
appeared among the “marshy pools” of the islands. “In 
January and February I observed a large flock of Wild Geese, 
coming from the N.E., and after resting on the outlying rocks 
here, they rose and flew west in the direction of St Kilda.” 
Shieldrakes—Two males and one female,in February, seen feed- 
ing on the island, and three Common Gulls and two Black- 
Backed Gulls. 1st March. Fifty Linnets (Twites ?) paid a visit, 
—wind south—stayed only a short time. A few Sandpipers 
remained a week, but departed when the weather broke. Rock 
Doves visited the island, but soon left. Sea birds observed from 
January 1st to March 31st are—Common Duck, Eider Duck, 
Northern Diver, and a few Scarts, but these also disappeared 
with a gale on the 20th March from quarters between S. and N.W. 
In Mr Georgeson’s next six months’ bulletin, he reports :— 
