280 THE HERRING GULL. 



Herring Gull which we reach is a high rock on the shore, 

 about a mile north of Burnmouth village, called the " Gull 

 Eock." Here a considerable number breed, and a few 

 nests are found at Bleak Heugh, a rocky precipice about 

 half a mile further north. There are no colonies of 

 this Gull between Bleak Heugh and the Lighthouse on 

 St. Abb's Head, but on the rocks below the Lighthouse 

 there are a few scattered nests, and we next find it rearing 

 its young on the Cleaver Eock. A short distance further 

 west is Foul Carr, a great precipitous rock standing out in 

 the sea near the part of the Head called the Eampart, and 

 here we find the principal breeding quarters of the Herring 

 Gull on the Berwickshire coast. A fine view of the western 

 slope of the top of this rock with its turfy ledges, where the 

 gulls have their nests, and where they are seen sitting in 

 numbers during the breeding season, may be had from the 

 edge of the cliff immediately to the north-east of the ruins 

 of St. Abb's Nunnery. From this point I have frequently 

 watched them with a binocular as they sat on their nests 

 or tended their young, and from it the vignette at the end 

 of this article was taken on the 20th of July 1887. About 

 a hundred yards westwards the Little Channeler Eock juts 

 out into the sea, and there another colony of this species 

 is found breeding. Immediately to the north-west of the 

 Little Channeler stands the lofty rocky island of Skelly, 

 forming the most northern point of Berwickshire, with Flot 

 Carr adjoining it. On the northern precipices of both of 

 these rocks the Herring Gull nests. Passing the pretty 

 little harbour of Petticowick and Broadhaven Bay we reach 

 West in Thirle Bay, where on the grassy ledges of the 

 Eavensheugh and Thrummie Carr a few more nests of this 

 bird are observed. Further to the west on the rocks below 

 the Uilystrand Brae and at Snuffiehole Stells more occur, 

 also at Maw Carr. Before reaching the Brander Cliffs, where 



