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WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. 



Great numbers of these birds breed at the 

 Saltee Islands, where we obtained the photograph 

 from which the picture on page 269 has been 

 reproduced. 



On the small islands forming part of the Inner 

 and Outer Hebridean groups, we have met with 

 the Great Black-backed and Common Gulls, and 



SCOULTON MERE. 



their nests, eggs, and young, but nowhere in large 

 numbers. 



We have twice visited Scoulton Mere, in 

 Norfolk, and punted across to the boggy reed-clad 

 island in the middle of it, where breed one of the 

 largest colonies of Black-headed Gulls to be met 

 with in the British Isles. When within seven or 

 eight miles of the Mere the visitor becomes aware 

 of the presence of the birds, for they are in every 

 field where the plough is at work, following it 

 just like rooks. Their eggs are collected at the 



