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15 large kittiwake colony. I cannot estimate the number of birds involved but it must be at least 200 thousand + may well be double that The cliffs, at their best, are about a mile long. + must stand 100-200 ft [feet] high. They are of boulder conglomerate with oblique dykes of sandstone. Huge caves have been eroded in them + the face is studded with projecting boulders + with the cavities from which they have fallen. These provide the nest sites. Report has it that in June the Razorbills are as abundant as the kittiwakes now are. All young are on point of flight as also are the few herring gulls. Saw only 3 or 4 razorbills + a like number of common guillemots (murres), a few puffins, several eiders + rock doves 3 rock pipits prowled in + out of the caves In the afternoon we visited the Forsyth Grants at Ecclescreigh House + had cocktails there. Never take gin + orange in these parts - it is worse than the worst American cocktail at its worst! Forsyth Grants brother O.S. Forsyth Grant was lost at sea in Cumberland sound Sept [September] 24, 1911. He had been trading there for several years. The Grant daughter is Air Marshal Foggarty - a pretty good sort. They are just back from Singapore. She suffers from a very common Marginalia: Fowlsheugh

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