ORNITHOLOGY OF SECTION D, 1850. 
the Hebrides, and it has chosen too that most central ‘situation, 
Ailsa Crag. It is also said to occupy Lundy Island in the Bristol 
Channel—I know not how truly. Lunde is the Faroese name for 
the Puffin. A Gannet rock is mentioned off the south-west of 
Ireland. On the whole east coast of Britain, its only station is 
the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth. The name Sula, I was 
told, has a reference to its quickness of sight. It is worthy of 
note, that each nation modifies the root of a name to some sig- 
nification in its own language, as Mr. Strickland has admirably 
illustrated in his etymology of the word Dodo. Sula is Soland, 
Jan van Gent is Gannet, and perhaps both these last from the 
German Gans, as it has been lately suggested to me. We must 
also bear in mind, that the appellation of one bird is frequently 
put on the shoulders of another, as often illustrated in our colonies. 
Probably the name Shelder, which in Shetland and the Faroe 
Islands is applied to the Oyster Catcher, from its shell eating pro- 
Pensities, has been shifted to the Sheldrake (Tadorna vulpanser), 
Just as the name Hoody Crow is applied to the Larus ridibundus 
m Orkney. So Lombvia is the Faroese name of Uria troile, 
Loon the local English of Podiceps or of Colymbus. 
Sterna arctica appears to be the Tern which Graba described 
*S peculiar to the Faroe Islands, under the name of 8. brachytarsa. 
t was in some numbers, breeding yery late. I found no other 
Species, 
me the only two spots where that noble bird, Lestris catarrhac- 
» Now breeds in the British Islands, it is preserved only by the 
utmost vigilance of the proprietors, one of whom, Mr. Edmondston, 
Ae ee in recovering the stock, after it had been reduced toa 
thon bake in Unst. But in Faroe its breeding places are numerous, 
peo : its preservation demands great self control on the part of the 
ee its attacks upon any one approaching its nest are most 
of the ae blows are aimed at the head, with the full momentum 
Didity im 7 ody ; and it returns again with the most steady intre- 
ane mc My friend, who got one thump, took constant 
weipies = care to avoid a second; it is only necessary to carry a 
full ace a stick over the head, to prevent the swoops taking 
chavion. he Protection afforded to it lasts only during good 
apt to he 3 when a colony is becoming too large, some of them are 
i gin to attack lambs ; they are then doomed to the infliction 
