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to be hoped that so desirable a result may yet be brought 

 to pass, but unless local sympathy is aroused for the birds, 

 not much can be done.* 



I am very much obliged to Mr. H. B. Elton for the view of 

 Gannet Rock, and for much information about its Gannets.f 



Grasholm Island. 



Modern History. — Grasholm, on the coast of Pembroke- 

 shire, South Wales, is the next settlement to be considered, and 

 here again there has been a good deal of regrettable taking of 

 both eggs and birds. The island, which is twenty-one acres 

 in extent and uninhabitable, is the property of Lord Ken- 

 sington, and is let to Mr. J. J. Neale, who does all he can to 

 protect the birds, and has obliged me with some particulars. 

 He reports that very few young Gannets were reared in 1905, 

 but in 1 906 about a hundred to a hundred and thirty got off, 

 and in 1907 three hundred: one reason for this difference was 

 that the bad weather in 1907 prevented fishermen and others 

 landing on the island and disturbing and molesting the birds. 



On the north the island is precipitous, and it is there that 

 the Gannets breed, some of them on a rock marked in the 

 Ordnance Survey as the West Tump, and others along the 



* " With the Gannets," writes Mr. Heaven, " have also vanished the 

 Choughs, which at one time were numerous," but in 1887 were already 

 very rare (c/. " Manual of Br tish Birds," p. 231). 



t A useful general account of Lundy, entitled " A M()nogra[)l>, descrip- 

 tive and historical" (n.d.) was published by the late Mr. J. R. Chanter. 



