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The Nightingales were noue of them singing, bnt only 

 uttering their piping and croaking alarm-notes, so that the 

 comparison may perhaps hardly give a fair idea as regards 

 that species. 



Mr. E. S. Salmon read a paper entitled "A Summer 

 Holiday in Cornwall and the Scilly Isles": — 



In this paper Mr. Salmon detailed the results of his obser- 

 vations during a little over a fortnight spent in Cornwall and 

 the Scilly Isles in the latter part of July, 1890. Amongst 

 the plants found in the Scilly Isles were Lotus hispidus, 

 Aiyssum maritimum (naturalized on several walls at High 

 Town), Smyrniitm Olusatrum, Erodium moschatum, E. mari- 

 timum, Hyoscyamiis niger, Osmunda regalis. Euphorbia Paralias, 

 E. Portlandica, Bartsia viscosa, Ornithopus ebracteatus, Ophio- 

 glossum vulgatum var. polyphyllum, Lavatera sylvestris, Scrophn- 

 laria Scorodonia, Asplenium lanceolatum, A. mannum, and 

 Reseda alba. On Guther's Island there was an abundance of 

 the Tree Mallow ; the whole island appeared to be overrun 

 with rats ; Oystercatchers, Curlews, Cormorants, and Shags 

 were seen. 



Annet Island is crowded with birds ; vast numbers of Gulls 

 (Greater and Lesser Black-backed and Herring) incessantly 

 screaming ; a stream of Puffins to and from their burrows, 

 carryingfish to their young; Common and Lesser Terns wheeling 

 and screaming close to us ; literally hundreds and hundreds 

 of young Gulls, some crouching in hollows, and some running 

 and tumbling down to the sea, their parents wheeling close 

 to our heads, screaming angrily all the while ; the whistling 

 of parties of Oystercatchers, and the constant twittering of 

 the Eock Pipits, — all these produced a scene which will be 

 long remembered. We dug out many burrows of the Manx 

 Shearwater, which in a great many places completely under- 

 mined the island, and fortunately found two addled eggs and 

 several young birds in the down. It was too late for the 

 eggs of Gulls or Puffins ; but an adult Puffin was caught and 

 photographed, but rather unsuccessfully ; they are so strong 

 that it is hard to hold them. Although late in the season, 



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