remote northern districts than in the southern counties. There are several
Two of these are very dissimilar in their

_ and the other on the island of Inchmoin, in

it “is much more common in the
irs’ journey of Glasgow.

character—one being situated near the summit of Ailsa Craig
Loch Lomond. In the former locality the nests are on the grassy slopes of the rock, and are mere hollows
formed in the turf, with a very scanty lining; but ‘n the inland nursery they are formed of materials similar
Lesser Black-backed Gull, and are generally found among coarse grass and bushes of
rs on Loch Lomond, in the island just named,
ace, repairing in the daytime to the upland

breeding-stations within a few hot

to those used by the
Twelve or fourteen pairs annually take up their quarte
aloof from the other species frequenting the pl
elens, where they occasionally fall in with dead sheep and other
in the evenings they may be seen returning to the loch, sailing majestically over

above the banks of the brawling torrent to pick up some stranded object.
breeding-colonies on nearly all the islands. There are several in
the freshwater lakes there, and also one or two in North

heath.

but seem to keep
animals, on which they surfeit themselves.

the tree-tops, or hovering

a minute or two
“In the Outer Hebrides there are

Lewis, which occupy small grass-covered islets on

Uist. Mr. Harvie Brown found about twenty-five pairs nesting, with the eggs hard sat upon, on an island

in a loch near Lochmaddy, on the 14th of May, 1870. There
here the birds are seen occupying isolated rocks

are likewise important stations on some of
the Inner Hebrides, one of these being the island of Rum, w
On St. Kilda, where several hundred pairs are found breeding, they
are very much disliked by the natives, In consequence of the depredations which they commit among the
birds. Mr. Elwes (Ibis, 1869), while visiting the island of Dun, one of the St.-Kilda
— After searching for some time, I looked over a cliff and

round the coast, safe from molestation.

nests of the other
group, thus speaks of their manner of thieving :
hich hundreds of Fulmars were sitting among the stones.

as none of those the natives had were long
at a tremendous pace. As soon

saw, far below me, a broad flat ledge, on w
I descended with a rope we had brought from the ‘ Harpy,”
enough. Two of the young men followed me, coming down hand over hand
as the Fulmars were disturbed from their eggs, the Black-backed Gulls came swooping down, and carried

my companions, who hate the ‘ Farspach’ (as they call

them off in their beaks, much to the indignation of
Larus marinus) with a deadly hatred, and practise all sorts of barbarities on them whenever they catch them,

as they are terrible robbers of eggs.’ ”__ Birds of the West of Scotland, p. 488.
The figure on the accompanying Plate is about three fourths of the size of life.