1H4 BLACK-HEADED GULLS OF ESSEX. 



The description of this plant seems to apply to Pneumaria 

 maritima Hill; but this is not a likely plant for Lincolnshire or 

 Essex. Is the " Isle of Fowle " Fowlness, or is it Foulney, off 

 the coast of Lancashire ? Pneumaria is recorded for " one of the 

 lies about Lankashire " in Parkinson's Theatriim p. 767, on the 

 authority of Mr. Thomas Hesket, under the name of Lancashire 

 Buglosse. 



p. 97. " Lychnis ayvensis Anglica agro proximo retro aedes C. D. 



Thomse Lucas equitis Colchesteriensis agri." [Silene anglica L., as in the 

 Theatrnm, p. 638]. 



p. 105. " Pitlegiiiin legiunt viilgare majus . . media via regia qua itur 



Londino Colchestriam." [Mentha pidegiiiiu L., as in the Theatriim, p. 29]. 



p. 149. Lonchitis altera minor. Hujus species tota minor reperitur prope 

 Colchestriam . . . quam primus mihi ostendit Thom. Boxton, Pharma- 

 copasus ibidem doctissimus." [A small form of Lo;«a;7Vj spicant Desv., as on 

 p. 1043 of the Theatriim.] 



p. 164. " Pitsillum Pisiiin aliud sylvestre, spontaneum . In Essexiae 



autem comitatu " and also at King's-Ley, Kent. [Probably Lathyrus sylvestris 

 L., as on pp. 1059-60 of the Theatriim.] 



(To be continued.) 



THE BLACK-HEADED GULLS IN ESSEX (1899). 



By PERCY CLARK, B.A. 

 With Plate V. 



THE following notes of my second annual visit paid last 

 summer (i8gg) to the Essex Gulleries, are culled from the 

 log of a small yacht, on board of which I was living at the time 

 in question. This must be my excuse for a somewhat rough and 

 disjointed accounts ; till it may be of interest to those Essex 

 naturalists who are concerning themselves in the preservation of 

 our seashore birds. 



The report below is a most encouraging one, and in marked 

 contrast to the somewhat despondent tone which was forced upon 

 me by the depressing state of affairs when I wrote in 1898 (see 

 Essex Naturalist, x., p. 389). 



GULLEKY NO. 1. 

 ''June 26, 1899, Brightlingsea. 



" After anchoring the yacht at high water in Beach Hole 

 Creek, I took the dinghy and rowed up the inlet another mile, 

 and very soon found the spot where the Black-headed Gulls were 

 breeding on the wide waste of saltings, by their sudden rise on 

 the wings and loud outcries as I approached. 



