66 BRITISH BIUDS. [vol. xv. 



On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1921, while on the Marine 

 Drive, at the base of the Castle Chff, Scarborough, I saw a 

 Fulmar Petrel fly in from the sea, and alight in the cliffs. 

 During the evening I saw several others, three being in the 

 cliffs at one time. Single birds were coming and going most 

 of the time. They alighted occasionally, but usually flew 

 along the cliff as though closely examining it for suitable 

 nesting sites on the grassy patches. On the following after- 

 noon the same thing was taking place, and I saw five birds 

 in the cliff at one time. The resident Jackdaws took no 

 notice of the flying birds, but mobbed them when they 

 alighted on the ledges. The Petrels seemed very clumsy 

 at alighting and made many ineffectual attempts to gain a 

 footing before succeeding. I am told similar birds have been 

 seen in the bay all the spring by the fishermen, but on two 

 subsequent visits to the Castle Cliff no Fulmars were visible. 



W. J. Clarke. 



In the Report of the Fame Islands Association for the season 

 1919 the secretary states : "A boatman told me that two 

 pairs of Fulmar Petrels (' Mallymack ' he called them) nested, 

 one on the Outer and one on the Inner Islands. . . . This, 

 so far as I know, is the first recorded instance of these birds 

 having nested on the Fames." For the season 1920 he writes : 

 " I am glad to say the Fulmar Petrels again visited the 

 Islands, but I could not make out that they bred there, and 

 I fancy they did not do so." 



The birds return about April and are seen by the fishermen 

 at sea, between Holy Island and the Fames. Two blue and 

 white birds, and two much browner, were observed this year 

 (1921). I saw the brown and white ones haunting the west 

 cliff of the Inner Fame when I was there on June 15th, so 

 went again the following day. I sat under the lighthouse 

 wall from 2 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. At first the brown and white 

 birds returned regularly every half hour, then at longer 

 intervals. With one exception they came from the south, 

 gUding slowly past the cliffs. One with a good deal of blue 

 and white amongst the brown, was apparently trying to 

 land high up on the cliff, but was disturbed by visitors on 

 the Island. The birds were sometimes together, but generally 

 alone. At 5.30 p.m. they both came back. The brown 

 one circled in and out of the chff just below me, and as it 

 was longer out of sight than flying round, I assumed that it 

 was landing. It continued doing this for about eight minutes. 

 The other came to the cliff a little way farther along, and 

 ghded along the face nearly at the top several times, but did 



