- guillemot Uria aalge. John Leslie Bishop of Ross, in his Historie of Scotland translated by Father James Dalrymple in 1596, describes
Ane certane kynd of fowle, in our mother toung named the skout... in quantitie lytle mair than the duke bot weil lang in body, sche layis her egs gretter than guse-egs. In gret diligate is sche haldne,... being sodin sche is maist tendir.
[A certain kind of bird, in our mother tongue named the scout in size little more than the duck but very long in the body, she lays her eggs bigger than goose eggs. She is considered a great delicacy... being boiled, she is most tender.]