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the steamer. When it got up, its flight was just Hke a 

 Gull's. 



Black-FIEADED Gull, Lanis ridibundits, Linn. 

 Hovering about the military slaughter-house. 



Lesser Black-backed Gull, Lams fuscus, Linn. 



Gannet, Sala bassana, (Linn.). 

 Several seen between Cadiz and Gibraltar. 



Puffin, Fratercula arctica (Linn.). 

 I was shown a young one at a chymist's, being stuffed. 



Eared Grebe, Podiceps nigricollis, Sundev. 



A Grebe was swimming in one of the moats, which I am 

 nearly sure was of this species. 



Military strictness reigns at Gibraltar. At 5.45 p.m. a 

 gun is fired, the band begins to play, and the gates of the 

 town are closed for the night ; after which no one is allowed 

 to pass the lines on any pretence, and benighted travellers 

 must find their way back to St. Roque, or sleep on the 

 sand. 



THE BITER BIT. 



Terns, Sandpipers, and Crows, are known to have been 

 caught by cockles and mussels, and to have suffered a lin- 

 gering death by starvation. Instances are recorded of the 

 Pewit, Water-rail, and Razorbill having met a like fate. 

 Made bold by hunger, they incautiously inserted their beaks 



