MR. U. M. WALLIS ON NATURAL HISTORY OK ARRAN MORE. 467 
On May 31st a fisherman brought us alive three Storm Petrels, 
which he had taken that morning from their holes. We liberated 
them, and induced their captor to take us to the place — a peaty 
.slope two hundred feet above the sea, almost inaccessible. On 
June 3rd, and again on Juno 5th, I visited the holes : there were 
many old and new, most opened westward. About twenty 
contained nests, little pads of white grass, placed not quite at the 
end of the hole. There were no eggs laid at the time of my last 
visit, though most holes contained one bird, and some a pair, 
which proved their relationship to the Shearwaters by fighting 
valiantly. There note was a squeak. No Fork-Uiled Petrels 
were found, but one of the men asserted that he knew the bird. 
On June 25th I received eggs from this colony; one was much 
incubated, but most were (juite fresh. The Storm Petrels of 
Arran More would ai)pear to bo somewhat early breeders. I 
noticed that the nostrils of the Storm Petrel differed from those 
of the Shearwater, which open upward rather than forward, and 
consist of two separate tubes ; those of the smaller bird apj>ear 
at the orifice as a single tube divitled by a thin vertical partition. 
Whilst investigating the Petrels’ breeding holes, a Wheatear’s 
nest and eggs were disinterred ; and from two other holes, nests 
and eggs, which I believe were Peed Bunting’s {E. schamichts). 
The eggs agree, and the absence of feathers in tin; nests, which 
consisted of white grass stems, leads mo to this conclusion, although 
no birds of this species were seen, or known to bifcd, for miles 
around, and the position of the nests was certainly unusual, placexl 
at the extremity of small burrows, two feet in length, upon the 
summit of an isolated .skerry, destitute of tree or bush, or so much 
as a tuft of rushes. 
The keeper of the lighthouse upon Arran More showed me 
several Snow Buntings in nuptial plumage, shot there, and 
mounted by himself. One was killed about the middle of April, 
he said. 
On May 23rd I saw a Twite’s nest and eggs built among the 
highest rocks of Arran More. I'his is probably the most 
numerous of the genus in this district, although the common 
Linnet breeds pretty freely, and I found the Lesser Redpoll nesting 
in a Fuchsia bush in the agent’s garden upon the island. The 
willows being late last May, the bird had failed to find enough 
