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coast of Cornwall ; it is only a little island, but it is some 

 150 feet in height, and precipitous, and lies about a mile 

 from the mouth of the river Camel, not far from Pentyr 

 Point. Clearly it could not have been identical with Lundy 

 Island, for Lundy is separately mentioned,* besides being 

 a long way from Tintagel."f I learn from Mr. Walter Barratt, 

 of Padstow, that many Gulls and other sea-birds still yearly 

 nest on Gulland, but that certainly no Gannets have bred 

 there in modern times. Turning to the journal of John 

 Ray, the naturalist, who was at Padstow with Willughby 

 in June, 1662, we find him alluding to there being Gannets 

 near there, but this was long after the time of Botoner ; 

 moreover, Ray gives no hint of their resorting for breeding 

 purposes to Gulland or to Godreve, on which latter he and 

 Willughby landed, or indeed to any island on the Cornish 

 coast — in fact he did not even know that they bred on 

 Lundy Island. J 



If Gannets ever bred in the Isle of Man, Mr. P. G. Ralfe, 

 author of " The Birds of the Isle of Man " — a very 

 competent authority — is of opinion that a lofty stack 



* " Nasmith," t.c, p. 155. 



t I must not omit to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. Howard Fox 

 for the great trouble he has taken in assisting to ascertain the identity of 

 Pentybers. 



I " Memorials of John Ray, with his Itineraries," edited by E. Lankester 

 (1846), p. 185. 



