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ENGLISH BIRD-LIFE 



Lesser Black-back Gulls 



The Fames will be recalled as the home of St. Cuthbert 

 and the scene of Grace Darling's heroism and a connecting 

 liistorical note is supplied by one of the bird wardens, Jack 

 Darling, a nephew of the light-keeper's famous daughter. 



Bass Eock, too, has its history as a prison for Dissenters 

 and as the one Scottish stronghold not captured bv the 

 Cromwellians, but to the bird student it is known chiefly as 

 the original home, in scientific nomenclature at any rate, of 

 the Gannet or Solan Goose, which Linufpus named Sula has- 

 srinn, under the impression that this splendid bird inhnbitcd 

 only the Bass. As a matter of fact, it is found in only about 

 n dozen islets in Great Britain, and two in America. 



Ten thousnnd Gnnncts. it is said, nost on the Bass to-dav 

 and so lame arc thev that the visitor who does not mind 

 looking down 450 feet of sheer cliff, may readily climb 



