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a godsend to the Woodcocks, because it has kept such large 

 numbers of shooters busy elsewhere. 



Black Tern {Hydrochelidon nigra). 



A principal feature of the coast migration daring the first 

 fortnight in September was the great number of Black Terns 

 which frequented the vicinity of a small harbour, where they 

 seem to have been quite exceptionally numerous. Mr. E. C. 

 Arnold is of opinion that they arrived with a southerly wind ; 

 he saw them repeatedly, and might have counted fifty at 

 least. They were also watched by others, and were noticed 

 by the Duchess of Bedford about September loth. From 

 the observations of Mr. Richards, it seems that most of them 

 took their departure with a north-east wind on the 13th. 



Roseate Tern {Sterna dougallii). 

 Common Tern (5. hirundo). 

 On May 28th Mr. Pinchen considers that he identified three 

 Roseate Terns and the same, or others, were subsequently 

 seen by Mr. Ramm ; indeed, it is quite possible that among 

 the many eggs a clutch or two were theirs ; there seems to 

 be little doubt that we have a pair or two on the Norfolk 

 coast nearly every year. How long Common Terns have 

 nested at Blakeney Point, and whether Sterna hirundo has 

 always been the species to be in the ascendancy as now, there 

 is no means of ascertaining, but the settlement was known 

 to my father in 1831, and is mentioned in Wood's Naturalist 

 in 1838 (Vol. IV., p. 334). 



Little Gull {Larus minutus). 

 A young one was sent up to Norwich on September 20th, 

 perhaps the same reported to the Duchess of Bedford at 

 Blakeney on the 12th. Mr. Pashley had another to stuff on 

 November ist. A year seldom passes without two or three 

 turning up, but it has never been plentiful since 1870. 



Black-headed Gull {Larus ridihundus). 



Scoulton Gullery. — A special interest has always attached 

 to Scoulton Gullery, as being the oldest nursery of its kind 

 in the British Isles. It has had its vicissitudes, but there is 

 no record of its having ever, even in the driest seasons, been 

 forsaken for a single summer. In 1919 the Gulls showed up 

 in considerably better strength than in some previous years, 

 at all events they did so on May 13th, when Mr. W. H. St. 

 Quintin and Mr. Meade-Waldo paid the island a visit. It 

 was like Joseph Wolf's beautiful picture of a white cloud of 

 birds rising on the wing when the " Pewits " were disturbed. 



