BLACK-HEADED GULL. 
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bow of the net, which are built round, about three yards 
diameter and a yard length or somewhat better, with small 
stakes driven into the ground in a circle, and interwoven with 
broom and other raddle. 
In which manner there have heen taken of them in one 
morning fifty dozens at a driving. 
But they commonly appoint three days of driving them, 
within fourteen days or thereabouts of the 2nd. and 3rd. of 
June, which while they are doing, some have observed a 
certain old one that seems to be somewhat more concerned 
than the rest, being clamorus, and striking down upon the 
very heads of the men; which has given ground of suspicion 
that they have some government among them, and that this 
is their prince, who is so much concerned for its subjects. 
And it is further observed that when there is great plenty 
of them the lent corn is so much the better, and the cow 
pasture too, by reason they pick up all the worms and the 
‘Tern Flyes.” 
Scoulton Mere, near East Dereham, in Norfolk, the property 
of Major Wayland, is another breeding-haunt; as many as 
thirty thousand eggs are taken every year, and in one seasbn 
as many as forty-four thousand were the produce. Bollesby 
Broad, near Yarmouth, in the same county, is also a great 
resort, as are others of the Broads; and the birds are seen along 
the coast. In Cambridgeshire, they used to frequent the fens, 
in some seasons in great plenty. 
In Yorkshire, a great breeding-place for these Gulls is on 
Hornsea Mere. They used to frequent Thorne Moor. They 
occur along the sea-shore, and individuals have been seen near 
Wakefield and Huddersfield. 
Many hundreds breed near the mouth of the Thames, both 
on the Essex and the Kentish side, finding suitable situations 
on the low islands near the banks, and the marshes of the 
mainland. 
Another interesting Gullery is on a lake in front of Pallinsburn 
Hall, Northumberland, the ancient seat of the Askews, of which 
family was the never-to-be-forgotten Dame Anne Askew, the 
martyr, of ‘glorious, pious, and immortal memory.’ My cousin, 
Mrs. John Hincks, of Cowling Hall, near Bedale, being related 
to the Pallinsburn family, I requested her to obtain lor me 
all the information on the subject she could, and her sister, 
Miss Pulleine, being on a visit there at the tim or shortly 
