272 WITH XATUBE AXD A CAMEEA. 



Great numbers of these birds breed at the 

 Saltee Ishmds, where Ave obtained the photograph 

 from which the picture on page 269 has been 

 reproduced. 



On the small islands forming part of the Inner 

 and Outer Hebridean groups, we have met witli 

 the Great lilack-backed and Common Gulls, and 



SCOULTON MERE 



their nests, eggs, and young, but nowhere in Inrge 

 numbers. 



We have twice visited Scoulton Mere, in 

 Norfolk, and punted across to tlie boggy reed-clad 

 island in the middle of it, where breed one of tlie 

 largest colonies of Black-headed Gidls to be met 

 Avith in the British Isles. When Avitliin seven or 

 eight miles of the Mere tlie visitor Ix'conies aware 

 of the })resence of the lairds, for they are in every 

 field where the ])loiigli is at work, following it 

 just like rooks. ^ "^I'lieir eggs are collected at the 



