6—DESTRUCTION OF BIRDS AT SEA 
N October r914 were published the first 
| reports of sea-birds, disabled by oil, 
having been washed ashore on the coast 
of South Norfolk and North Suffolk (Zoolo- 
gist, 1915, p. 96). In I9QI5 similar occur- 
rences were reported off Sussex and Kent in 
January; off Holy Island in January and 
February ; off Romney Marsh on June oth 
and roth: off the Isle of May and coast of 
Fife on June 16th. From June 21st to 
July rst numbers of sea birds and land birds 
were killed by a quantity of crude oil off 
St. Andrews, and an observer stated that the 
oil stuck to the birds like bird-lime and that 
he buried no less than 269 GUILLEMOTS 
(Scottish Naturalist, 1917, P. 78). Heavy 
mortality among sea birds, from a like cause, 
was reported in Largo Bay, from the River 
Tay opposite Dundee to Kirkcaldy, on 
June 24th; and off Kingsdown and Dunge- 
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