56 BRITISH BIRDS. 



When first roused it settled on the sea, but when we put 

 it up a second time it flew away along the shore northwards 

 and was soon lost to sight in the fog blowing off the sea. 



C. J. Alexander. 



[In his History of the Birds of Kent (p. 510) X. F. Tice- 

 hurst remarks that the visits of the Little Gull to Kent in 

 spring and summer are rare. He gives details of two occur- 

 rences in Aj)ril, four in May, and two in June, the latter being 

 apjjarently in much the same stage of plumage as the bird 

 above described. — Eds.] 



DEATH OF A FLAMBOROUGH CLIFF-CLIMBER. 



A MOST regrettable accident has happened to the Flamborough 

 party of cliff-climbers, by which Joseph Major, fisherman, 

 lost his life. Major and his brothers went out on the 

 morning of June 6th, 1910, to the cliffs near Danes' Dyke 

 on the north of Flamborough, where the egg-climbing opera- 

 tions are carried on, and shortly after Joseph had made his 

 second descent, his companions became anxious on noticing 

 the signal-rope was slack and not working ; one of then number 

 went to a projecting point of rock, where he saw the climber 

 lying motionless on a grassy slope below. Assistance was 

 procured from the Bempton climbers, one of whom, Moore, 

 being lowered do\\Ti to him, discovered he was unconscious, 

 and had sustained a serious injury to his head, apparently 

 caused by a piece of rock falling upon him. The Flam- 

 borough Rocket-Brigade also gave valuable assistance, whilst 

 medical aid was summoned from Bridlington. Dr. Wetwan 

 and the other climbers descended to the injured man, who had 

 meanwhile been lowered to the beach, and after very great 

 difficulty and several hours' work, he was brought up, in the 

 breeches-buoy of the rocket-apjsaratus, to the cliff-top near the 

 " Dor," thence being conveyed in the doctor's motor-car to the 

 Bridlington Hospital, where, unfortunately, he succumbed to his 

 injuries two days afterwards, without having regained conscious- 

 ness. Although the climbers have several times been injured 

 by stones becoming loosened and falling upon them, this is 

 the first fatal accident whilst in the actual pursuit of " egg- 

 climbing " kno^^-n in the Flamborough district, and visitors 

 to the celebrated Yorkshire cliffs, who knew young "Joss," as 

 he was familiarly called, will deeply deplore the untimely, 

 and painfully sad, end of an obliging, intrepid and skilful 

 fisherman and egg- climber. 



It is somewhat strange that since the publication of The 

 Birds of Yorkshire three of the climbers therein referred to 



