it “ is much more common in the remote northern districts than in the southern counties. There are several
breedmg-stntions w,thm a few hours' journey o f Glasgow. Two o f these are very dissimilar in their
character one being situated near the summit o f Ailsa Craig, and the other on the island o f Inchmoin in
Loch Lomond. In the former locality the nests are on the grassy slopes of the rock, and are mere hollows
formed the turf, with a very scanty lining; but in the inland nursery they are formed of materials similar
o those used by the Lesser Black-hacked Gull, and are generally found among coarse grass and bushes of
heath. Twelve or fourteen pairs annually take up their quarters on Loch Lomond, in the island just named
but seem to keep aloof from the other species frequenting the place, repairing in the daytime to the upland
glens, where they occasionally fall in with dead sheep and other animals, on which they surfeit themselves
In the evenings they may be seen returning to the Ioeh, sailing majestically over the tree-tops, or hovering
a minute or two above the banks o f the brawling torrent to pick up some stranded object.
“ In the Outer Hebrides there are breediug-colonies on nearly all the islands.’ There are several in’
Lems, which occnpy small grass-covered islets on the freshwater lakes there, and also one or two in North
Uist Mr. Harvie Brown found about twenty-live pairs nesting, with the eggs hard sat upon, on an island
— I m t S m “ I B 5 Ma* I87°- There I H I important stations on some of
the Inner Hebrides one o f these being the island o f Rum, where the birds are seen occupying isolated rocks
round the coast safe from molestation. On St. Kilda, where several hundred pairs are found breeding, they
are very much disliked by the natives, in consequence o f the depredations which they commit among the
nests o f the other birds. Mr. Elwes (Ibis, 1869), while visiting the island o f Dun, one o f the St.-Kilda
group thus speaks of their manner o f thieving■ After searching for some time, I looked over a cliff and
aw, far below me, a broad flat ledge, on which hundreds o f Fulmars were sitting among the L "
I descended with a rope we had brought from the “ Harpy,” as none o f those the natives hfd were long
as "the F I H 71 Hi 1 dí>'™ hand 0fer haad at a tremendous pace. As soon
as the Fulmars were disturbed from their eggs, the Black-hacked Gulls came swooping down, and carried
off in their beaks much to the indignation of my companions, who hate the -Farspach’ (as they call
¿aras mar,mi) with a deadly hatred, and practise all sorts o f barbarities on them whenever they catch L m
na^y are robbers of eggs.' >’Hg-Birds o f t/ie West o f Scotland, p. 488.
The figure on the accompanying Plate is about three fourths of the size o f life.