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Naturalises Library he records : " Specimen shot near Elshie- 
shiels [Lochmaben] by gamekeeper there, winter of 1862. 
Saw the specimen in Wilham Hastings' shop before being 
skinned." I am not aware of any other authenticated 
records in recent years, though Mr. R. Service writes me 
that he beHeves he has seen the Iceland Gull off our 
coast " afar off, but without satisfactory identification." 
This species breeds in Jan Mayen and Greenland ; in the 
colder months visits Iceland, the Faeroes, and the shores 
of north-west Europe as far as the Gulf of Gascony in severe 
winters ; and in America it occurs at this season as far 
south as Lake Michigan. In some winters it is fairly 
numerous off the coasts of Scotland, but is always more 
rarely met with elsewhere round the British Isles. 
THE KITTIWAKE GULL. Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus). 
An occasional visitor to the Solway. 
The Kittiwake is more pelagic in its habits than the rest of 
the gulls, and is only seen locally when unusual weather has 
driven it in from the open sea, or the more distant Galloway 
coast. Dumfriesshire lies rather too far inland for this 
species, yet when a driving snow-squall occurs, the Solway 
fishermen are sometimes astonished at the sudden appearance 
of numbers of Kit ti wakes. The bird does not breed nearer 
than the Ross in Kirkcudbrightshire. 
A Kittiwake is recorded* as got at Jardine Hall, and the 
occurrence of the species twelve miles inland is remarkable. 
A specimen shot near Gretna on January 13th, 1906, is 
recorded in the Tulhe House Museum Registers at Carlisle ; 
and to the fact that this species seldom comes in-shore is 
attributable my lack of records of its occurrence in the 
county. 
* Cat. Birds in coll. Sir W. J., p. 204 (8340), b. 
