128 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



winter, leaving the Islands for their breeding- 

 stations in the spring. Some of those that remain 

 throughout the summer I have no doubt breed in 

 the Islands, as I have seen the old birds about with 

 their young and shot one in July; and on the 8th of 

 June, 1876, I saw a pair in full breeding plumage 

 in L'Ancresse Bay; I saw them again about the 

 same place on the 16th : these birds were evidently 

 paired, and I believe had eggs or young on a small 

 rocky island about two or three hundred yards from 

 the land, but there was no boat about, and so I 

 could not get over to look for the eggs. Col. 

 1'E strange obtained some eggs on one of the rocky 

 islands to the north of Herm, which certainly were 

 not Tern's eggs as he supposed, and I believe them 

 to have been Turnstone's ; unluckily he did not take 

 the eggs himself, but the boatman who was with 

 him took them, so he did not see the bird go off the 

 nest. This last summer (1878) I was in hopes of 

 being more successful either in Guernsey itself or 

 in Herm, or the rocks near there, but I did not see 

 a single Turnstone alive the whole time I was in 

 Guernsey. I think it very likely, however, I should 

 have been successful in Herm, as I visited it several 

 times both by myself and with Col. 1'E strange and Mr. 

 Howard Saunders ; our first visit was on June the 

 21st, when we did not see a single Turnstone ; but 

 this was afterwards accounted for, as on a visit to 

 Jago, the bird-stuffer, a short time afterwards, I 



