866 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Londsborough, with whom I discussed the question, quite agreed with me. 
Perhaps the extension of the close-time for the East Riding of Yorkshire 
till the 1st of September, and the decline of the fashion for wearing gulls’ 
wings and breasts in ladies’ hats, may account for the increase. The 
Kittiwakes especially seemed very abundant, and with a glass one could 
see on the ledges plenty of their black-collared young almost ready to fly. 
Puffins and Razorbills appeared to be more numerous in proportion to the 
Guillemots than formerly. Many ornithologists will, I daresay, be pleased 
to hear that this most interesting colony of birds is in such a flourishing 
condition. Peregrines did not breed on the cliffs this year, a pair which 
were seen in the winter having fallen victims to the gun.—JuLian G. Tuck 
(Scarborough). 
Nestine Hasirs or tae Startinc.—Starlings nesting under the 
eaves had young by the first week in May, which left the nest by the end 
of the month, though for the most part imperfectly fledged. One was 
killed by a fall, another could fly but a yard or two, though the parent 
birds were assiduous in their endeavours to entice it out of harm’s way, 
by offering it food and then withdrawing it, the young bird the while open- 
mouthed and clamorous to be fed. This being repeated time after time 
they at length succeeded in getting it under cover. It is somewhat 
remarkable that there were young of three sizes in the same nest. The 
scarcity of summer migrants in the Undercliff this summer is noteworthy, 
particularly in the case of the Hirundines. Hardly any of these birds are 
to be seen, and none, that I am aware of, are nesting here-——Hurnry 
HaprieEp (Ventnor, Isle of Wight). 
Herons nestinc AT Hempsreap, NorrouK —Herons have nested 
this year, for the first time, at Hempstead, in this county, but apparently 
only a single pair. The nest is in a medium-sized Scotch fir in the heart 
of a large wood composed of these trees. I could not scale it; but, from the 
broken egg-shells at the bottom, there is no doubt that the young were 
sitting in the trees near.—J. H. Gurney, Jun. (Northrepps, Norwich). 
Cormorant wirH Ware Featsrers In THE Tatu.—I have lately 
received from my taxidermist, J. Russell, of Middlesborough, a female 
Cormorant which I shot at the ‘Teesmouth, October, 1879, three of the tail- 
feathers being partially white from the tip to about two inches above.— 
T. H. Nexson (North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland). 
SHORT-FINNED Tunny at Prnzance.—On June 26th I received a 
specimen of the Short-finned Tunny, caught in the nets of our Mackarel- 
fishers. It was over twenty-three inches in length, aud marked on the 
