. The birds of Iona & Mull . exception of the letter dated January16 [1852]. It seems highly probable, therefore, that all correspondenceand other papers were collected by Mr Gray, and set apart for thepreparation of the memorial volume referred to in the minute ofmeeting of 24th February 1 874—a work which he did not the MSS. were returned to Mr Graham, and retained amonghis private papers, or sent for publication elsewhere, I cannot accountfor their absence both from the repositories of the Society and fromthe documents collected by Mr Gray for the preparation of the memoir
. The birds of Iona & Mull . exception of the letter dated January16 [1852]. It seems highly probable, therefore, that all correspondenceand other papers were collected by Mr Gray, and set apart for thepreparation of the memorial volume referred to in the minute ofmeeting of 24th February 1 874—a work which he did not the MSS. were returned to Mr Graham, and retained amonghis private papers, or sent for publication elsewhere, I cannot accountfor their absence both from the repositories of the Society and fromthe documents collected by Mr Gray for the preparation of the memoir. I regret that I have been unable to obtain any evidence regardingthe publication, in any Journal or Transactions, of any of the com-munications read before the Natural History Society of Glasgow, butwhich were not printed in its D. A. B. 1 Some of the Letters, as has already been stated, appeared in successivenumbers of Morris Naturalist, and are reprinted in the present volume of MrGrahams writings.— \ BR THE BIRDS OF IONA AND MULL. THE BIRDS OF IONA AND MULL. The Golden Eagle. Eagles are much less numerous now than they appear to have beena generation ago, judging from the numerous deserted eyries whichhave been pointed out to me by the older natives, among the precipi-tous cliffs of the south and west coast of Mull, as having been oncetenanted yearly by pairs of eagles. The increased number of guns,and the ruthless war waged by shepherds against the larger birds ofprey in these later days, sufficiently account for their disappearance, assheep-farming extends into the districts once left to solitude and an occasional eagle may be seen pursuing his lofty course over themoors and mountains of Mull and the surrounding islands. A friend,a few years ago, killed one out of a party of seven, a number whichwould have been thought deeply significant in the days when augurywas a fashionable science. In Jura a pair flew close over my head asI, with a f
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