6 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
continual flow of Pufiins to and from the sea. I have seen lots 
of Puffins breeding at other places, at Lundy Island, and about 
Tenby on the Welsh coast, and in the Channel Islands; but I 
never remember to have seen a colony so thickly populated. On 
the sea side of these islands, which was more steep and 
rocky than the land side, both Razorbills and Guillemots were 
nesting in considerable numbers, as they were also in every 
place where there was room for an egg, on the cliffs on the 
mainland. There were places where we could see the eggs quite 
clearly, though we could not get at them. A great many 
Herring Gulls were nesting both on the cliffs and on the islands. 
One of my daughters and I, after a hard climb, got a Herring 
Gull’s egg, which turned out to be quite fresh, though in other 
nests there were some young birds hatched. A great many pairs 
of Kestrels were nesting along the cliffs, mostly in quite inac- 
- cessible holes. From their numbers I suppose they are not much 
shot at along the cliffs. This may in some way account for the 
scarcity of Wheatears, of which we saw very few indeed all along 
the coast, and that even in most likely places for them, and some- 
times in places where at other times I had seen them plentifully. 
There were also a great many Jackdaws and a few Crows; I 
suppose these latter are occasionally shot at, for we picked up 
one dead one. But we did not see a single Chough, even at 
Tintagel, which is the only place on the Cornish coast where I 
have ever seen any of these birds, though on the three or four 
occasions on which I have visited King Arthur’s grand old ruin 
I have always seen one or two there. We did not see any Lesser 
Black-backed Gulls breeding about the cliffs here, the only gulls 
we saw being Herring Gulls. At Tintagel, a little way up 
towards the village, we saw a Ring Ouzel, a young bird of the 
year, with the ring scarcely developed. 
On the 24th we went to New Quay, not very far from 
Boscastle; we saw a great many Herring Gulls, quite a flock, 
following the plough like Rooks, and picking up worms and 
grubs. They came quite as close after the plough and seemed 
quite as bold as Rooks generally do when engaged in the same 
manner. We did not see any Black-backed Gulls among the 
Herring Gulls this time, though when here in July, 1877, I had 
seen the Herring Gulls similarly employed about the same place, 
but then there were a few Lesser Black-backs with them. 
