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been handed down from father to son. Other names are : — 

 White Wing-s, because a white guillemot was seen there ; 

 White Breadloaf — a friend in need asked for help ; E. Hodgson 

 replied to his guest, " Noo theer's a spot theer, and whativer 

 there is on it you shall have 'em." The man was presented 

 with the eggs from this ledge, with which he bought the 

 first white breadloaf he had had for many months. Shoe- 

 maker's Shop, Kit Pape Spot, Broken Head (Coatham's 

 head broken), Franky Barnet Table, Bobby Robson Three 

 Ha'penny Spot, Ding Dong, Katey Robson, Hat Hole, Arra 

 (harrow) Tooth, Duggleby Corner, now called Jubilee Corner, 

 because first climbed in the Queen's first Jubilee Year — all 

 these tell of events in the lives of the people, that endear 

 them to the cliffs.* 



To turn to the population of the cliffs past and present, 

 I shall confine my remarks to summer inhabitants — to name 

 the winter visitors to a migration centre like Flambro' is 

 outside the scope of this paper. 



The occurrence of the Raven was already traditional when 

 the oldest inhabitants of Bempton and Buckton were boys, 

 their fathers having told them of the time when a price was 

 set upon the head of this Ishmael among birds, who seems 

 to have every man's hand against him wherever he goes. 



Mr. Nesfield, at Buckton, has two fine adult Peregrine 

 Falcons, male and female, shot from the cliffs over twenty 

 years ago, and one young one in first plumage which he 

 kept in confinement, over thirty years ago, but when it 

 escaped and proved difficult of capture, he shot the bird 

 in order to secure it. The shooting of one of the old birds 

 was the cause of the eyrie on the cliffs being finally deserted. 

 A pair of Peregrines took up their quarters on the cliff early 

 in April, 1902, but the hen bird being shot, their evident 

 intention of breeding there was frustrated. -J* 



Some forty years ago the birds seem to have been more 

 numerous even than now, if recollections are to be trusted, 

 every bay from Flambro' Head westward having apparently 

 its breeding population, where now a bird is never seen 

 sitting on the ledges, e.g., there is a small cove west of 

 Thornwick known as Chatter Trove, from the noise the 

 birds are said to have made there. It is now entirely 

 deserted by them. In those days the Kittiwake used to 



* Wade's Spot, a more modern name, should have been included. — Ed. 



+ I should not omit mentioning- that a prominent Flambro' naturalist 

 has a firm belief in the former occurrence of the Great Auk at Bempton, 

 a belief which I got into serious disgrace through scoffing at. 



