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beside them as if to guard them from slipping off the rocks; a few 
were more advanced and had taken to the water. None of the 
herring gulls had hatched, but most of them appeared to be 
sitting. 
There seems to me very little doubt that a few pairs of turnstones 
breed every year, either on Guernsey itself or on the outlying rocks. 
On the 8th I saw a pair in full breeding plumage in Lancresse Bay. 
I saw them again about the same place on the 16th. Besides this 
a friend showed me two eggs which he had taken on the rocks to 
the north of Herm: these seem to me to be certainly turnstone’s 
eggs—at least they closely resemble, both in measurements and 
colour, all the other turnstones’ eggs I have seen. On other 
occasions I have seen the old birds about with their young in July, 
and shot one of the birds out of such a flock. In spite of this 
I have hitherto been rather sceptical as to the turnstone breeding 
in the Channel Islands; but the eggs from the rocks to the north 
of Herm,* and the two birds which I saw about in Lancresse Bay, 
which I think had their nest on an outlying rock, have pretty well 
convinced me that the turnstone does breed in places on or near 
Guernsey; and indeed I do not quite see why it should not, as it 
appears to breed in the same sort of places still further south in 
the Azores and Canaries. 
I saw several pairs of Kentish lovers about in some of the bays 
in the low part of Guernsey, and watched a pair for a long time 
near Cobo Bay: they certainly had eggs or young about some- 
where, as they showed great anxiety, and exercised all the usual 
plover dodges, to draw one from the nest. A few days after I went 
with a friend to look up the same pair of birds, and there they were — 
about the same place: deluded by them, my friend set his dog 
after one, thinking it was a wounded bird, and, having drawn the 
dog a good way off,.of course away went the bird: after that there 
was very little chance of finding the nest, as though the birds flew 
round, they took care not to go near their nest while we and the 
dog were about. 
1 did not see a single ring dotterel all the time I was in the 
islands, and only one small flock of purres near the Vale Church ; 
these were in a flock, and not in pairs as if they were breeding, 
like the turnstone and Kentish plover. There were a good many 
* T could not manage during my stay to get to these rocks, or I might have mga 7 
the thing certain.—C. S. 
