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Head, where Dr. Dewar saw their eggs on the shelves of the rocks in 

 1905. 



The Bridled variety has been taken below Broughty Ferry — one 

 in the winter of 1878, which is now in the collection of the Dundee 

 Naturalists Society. 



As mentioned under the Razorbill, occasionally specimens are 

 observed near Stanley on the river Tay above Perth city. 



Uria grylle {L.). Black Guillemot. 



Occasionally found about the Isle of May (Forth), and in St. Andrews 

 Bay. 



Col. Drummond Hay appeared to have been in the belief that 

 Black G-uillemots at one time bred abundantly about Muchalls in 

 Kincardineshire. He wrote to me in 1886 : "I never got their eggs 

 there, and indeed never looked for them, but I found the birds during 

 all the breeding season in full summer plumage, and the young birds 

 later on plentiful all along that coast. That was in 1834 — a long 

 time past. Possibly they are not found there now" (in lit., 26th 

 February 1886). 



I am not aware of any authentic account of their breeding any- 

 where upon that coast even at Fowlsheugh or Muchalls, though they 

 have been seen there by Mr. Nicol Simpson in more recent years 

 than indicated above by Col. Drummond Hay. 



The Black Guillemot is stated to have been obtained inland at 

 Loch Tay, but I have no particulars to hand at date of August 1905, 

 nor since. 



Mergulus alie (L.). Little Auk. 



Driven ashore and scattered all over the interior at times after 

 severe gales from seaward. Winter visitant under these circum- 

 stances, but it is a familiar bird to the fisher-folk who ply their 

 calling in the North Sea. 



A wonderful irruption took place in the very severe winter of 1871-2, 

 and again in 1879, when many were driven to far inland localities. 

 Many other irruptions took place after, but none perhaps more extra- 

 ordinary than that in 1894-5, which was duly chronicled by Mr. Eagle 

 Clarke, and mapped for the first time (Annals Scot Nat. Hist, for 1895). 



In the irruption or invasion in 1879 examples were got as far 

 inland as Buchanty Moor (Field, 1879, p. 167, February 15). 



In the still greater invasion of 1894-5, Mr. Malloch appears to 



