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all our species it is the most decidedly a rock-breeder, 

 and it congregates in localities suitable to its habits — 

 sometimes in amazing numbers — during the nesting- 

 season. It no longer breeds on the Needle Rocks of the 

 Isle of Wight, and it is doubtful if it does so in Dorset- 

 shire ; but there are some stations in Cornwall, and the 

 Scilly Isles ; and multitudes make their nests on the 

 precipitous crags of Lundy Island off North Devon. 

 Colonies are also to be found along the coast of Wales, and 

 on the Isle of Man. On the eastern side of England it 

 breeds abundantly on the Flamborough range of cliffs in 

 Yorkshire, and the Pinnacles at the Fame Islands off 

 Northumberland. Passing northwards, it appears to nest in 

 the vicinity of St. Abb's Head, where it has been mistaken 

 for the Common Gull {L. canus) ; and there are colonies on 

 the Bass Rock ; at Dunbuy in Aberdeenshire ; and in other 

 places along the coast, up to the Orkneys and the Shetlands. 

 In the latter, thousands may be seen occupying the precipi- 

 tous Noup of Noss. On the west coast Mr. R. Gray states 

 " that there are many breeding-stations, ranging from the 

 Scaur Rocks in the Bay of Luce, to the island of Handa 

 off the coast of Sutherlandshire, on the one hand, and from 

 Barra Head to Suleskeir and Rona, on the other. It is 

 abundant during the summer months on Ailsa Craig, and 

 the Mull of Oe in Islay, the island of Rum, where there is 

 an extensive breeding colony, the Shiant Isles, Haskeir 

 Rocks, and St. Kilda." In Ireland, this is by far the most 

 common species of Gull at Rathlin Island, as well as on the 

 cliffs of Horn Head in Donegal, and on the lofty coast and 

 islands of the west and south ; there are also nesting-places, 

 although in smaller numbers, on the eastern side. 



In the Faeroes the Kittiwake breeds in myriads, and the 

 same may be said of some portions of Finmark, in Norway ; it 

 also nests on Spitsbergen, beyond which Parry observed it in 

 82f ° N., the highest latitude attained by him ; and on Novaya 

 Zemlya. Along the coasts of Sweden and Denmark it is 

 principally observed on migration, and although it is said to 

 breed on the island of Bornholm in the western Baltic, it is 



