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Willock (Willey, as it is known to fishermen), rears its 

 yount!; high in the cliff, near St. Margaret's Bay. The 

 hird lays but one eg^, of large size, very variable in colour. 

 TVe have several of their eggs in the museum collection. 

 These birds were very numerous some fifty years ago, in 

 proof of which I might mention the fact that hundreds of 

 eggs were taken by the coast-guard and others. 

 There was also at the time an annual shooting party 

 which destroyed these birds, until they became too scarce 

 to afford them a good day's sport. There is only a small 

 family of these birds that now breed in the cliff. 



I now come to the Gull tribe {Lams Fuscus) the herring 

 gull ; this gull is the only one that I know of that nests in 

 our cliff. These birds congregate in large numbers to the 

 eastward, where they nest on the projecting ledges of the 

 cliff. The birds lay fioTn three to four eggs. The general 

 colour of the eggs is a light olive-brown, spotted with two 

 shades of dark brown. The plumage of this bird is a dark 

 and uniform French grey on the back and wings. The 

 head, neck, and breast, pure white. The mandible is bright 

 yellow, the under onu tinged with red. 



To the westward there are many of the common species 

 build near Folkestone, in the double cliff, such as the 

 Common Linnet, Yellow-hammer, Stone Chat, and Black- 

 bird, the vegetation being more prolific than to the east- 

 ward. 



I may mention the Common Martin CHinmda Urbica) 

 builds numerously in the clilf. 



In the migration season the Black Redstart, Pied Fly- 

 catcher, Hoopoe, Woodcock, and sometimes the Cormorant, 

 have been killed. I am not aware of any other specimens 

 found on our shores worth notice. 



I trust you will accept this hasty sketch, and excuse any 

 imperfections which may have been observed, and I beg to 

 assure you that I shall have much pleasure in rendering 

 any further information in my power to Members of this 



