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removed to the farm-yard. Eveu a pair of Carrion Crows were 

 successfully entrusted with a quota of hen's eggs, and this, 

 which might well seem a risky venture, resulted in the due 

 appearance of the chickens and their safe removal home. The 

 fact that one of them was black, although the eggs were the 

 produce of fowls in which that colour was not represented, was 

 of course regarded by the farm people as due to the influence of 

 the Crows. 



I must not omit to state that there are no Common Terns 

 upon Skomer, as I erroneously asserted in my paper on the 

 Birds of Pembrokeshire (p. 218) ; but a small colony of about 

 twenty pairs, as I learned from the boatman who brought us 

 across, inhabit Skokolm Stack, a large rock off the eastern end 

 of Skokolm Island, some four or five miles distant from Skomer, 

 and this would appear to be the only breeding-station of these 

 birds in Pembrokeshire waters. 



Skomer, like Lundy and Eamsey, is without either bush or 

 tree, and does not appear to be dowered with the same wealth of 

 wild flowers that one finds on those two islands. The white 

 lychnis, and the beautiful wild roses of Ramsey were absent from 

 Skomer. But as one walks round its cliffs there are some grand 

 effects of colour. At one place the rocks are coal-black; this is 

 at their base, and where they contrast with the green sea-water 

 and sea-weeds of varied hues ; higher up there are larger masses 

 of deep orange-colour, while intermingled are rocks of brown and 

 grey of different shades. 



EGGING ON THE COAST OF YORKSHIRE. 

 By Thomas Carter. 



The night we arrived at Filey (June IStb) we met on the 

 cliff-top, past the old church, two men returning from a day's 

 " dimming," as it is there called ; they had eggs of the Guillemot, 

 Herring Gull, and Lesser Black-backed Gull, though very few of 

 the last named. After making arrangements to accompany them 

 on the next occasion, we enquired the best place on the Flam- 

 borough cliffs to see some " dimming," and were told Bempton. 



Accordingly, on the 1 6th, my brother and I proceeded there. 

 Arrived at the cliff-top we found a strong north-east wind blowing, 



