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  BIRDS. 
  

  

  A 
  Fulmar 
  Petrel 
  was 
  killed 
  by 
  a 
  golf-ball 
  struck 
  by 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  

   Innes 
  on 
  the 
  Nairn 
  golf-course 
  ; 
  it 
  was 
  entered 
  in 
  the 
  Northern 
  

   Chronicle 
  of 
  September 
  13th, 
  1894, 
  as 
  a 
  gull, 
  but 
  we 
  saw 
  the 
  bird 
  

   in 
  Mr. 
  Macleay's 
  shop, 
  and 
  identified 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  Fulmar. 
  It 
  is 
  the 
  

   more 
  strange, 
  as 
  a 
  Fulmar 
  is 
  a 
  rare 
  bird 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  coast, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  

   still 
  rarer 
  to 
  find 
  it 
  flying 
  overland. 
  

  

  Edward 
  finds 
  a 
  place 
  for 
  it, 
  and 
  says: 
  — 
  'Occasional 
  winter 
  

   visitor. 
  One 
  in 
  my 
  possession 
  was 
  knocked 
  down 
  by 
  an 
  oar 
  

   several 
  miles 
  out 
  at 
  sea 
  off 
  Gamrie 
  Head.' 
  

  

  [Puffinus 
  anglorum 
  (Temm.). 
  Manx 
  Shearwater. 
  

  

  Obs. 
  — 
  We 
  have 
  no 
  record 
  for 
  this 
  species 
  in 
  our 
  area, 
  but 
  it 
  may 
  

   prove 
  of 
  some 
  little 
  interest 
  to 
  relate 
  that 
  a 
  single 
  bird 
  occurred 
  

   at 
  Buchanness 
  Lighthouse 
  in 
  May 
  1879. 
  This 
  is 
  interesting 
  only 
  

   as 
  negative, 
  showing 
  how 
  very 
  rarely 
  it 
  occurs 
  on 
  our 
  north-east 
  

   coasts. 
  

  

  [Of 
  Puffinus 
  major 
  and 
  P. 
  obscurus 
  Edward 
  says 
  : 
  — 
  1 
  Only 
  winter 
  

   Visitors' 
  \ 
  ! 
  Italics 
  and 
  interjections 
  are 
  ours.] 
  

  

  Procellaria 
  pelagica, 
  L. 
  Storm 
  Petrel. 
  

  

  Captain 
  Ellice 
  obtained 
  a 
  specimen 
  on 
  Loch 
  Oich 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  

   of 
  November 
  1887. 
  

  

  Edward 
  puts 
  it 
  down 
  as 
  a 
  ' 
  visitor, 
  like 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  its 
  kind.' 
  

   We 
  may 
  allow 
  this 
  to 
  stand, 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  well 
  known 
  to 
  be 
  frequently 
  

   driven 
  inland 
  by 
  storms, 
  and 
  cast 
  upon 
  the 
  sea-shore 
  all 
  along 
  the 
  

   east 
  coast. 
  

  

  The 
  Storm 
  Petrel 
  is 
  seen 
  frequently 
  in 
  the 
  Moray 
  Firth. 
  

   Martin 
  (ms.) 
  instances 
  Burghead 
  ; 
  at 
  Inverness 
  in 
  numbers 
  in 
  

   1842-43 
  (G. 
  Anderson). 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  observed 
  in 
  great 
  abundance 
  

   within 
  the 
  last 
  few 
  years. 
  

  

  Brown 
  considers 
  it 
  very 
  rare. 
  He 
  found 
  one 
  in 
  the 
  winter 
  of 
  

   1879, 
  frozen 
  to 
  death, 
  and 
  sticking 
  to 
  a 
  telegraph-wire 
  at 
  Burghead 
  

   Railway 
  Station. 
  

  

  