8 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
‘See Yarrell, vol. i., ed. 3rd.””. A good many of the best birds 
seem to have been lost since I was there in 1877, or, being too 
dilapidated perhaps for public view, have been put back out 
of sight as much as possible. I missed the Alpine Swift, Little 
Bittern, Little Egret, Glossy Ibis, and others which I had seen 
before, and which the then curator told me had been killed in 
Cornwall. 
The road from Truro to Redruth passes through the mining 
country, and hence, as may be supposed, we did not see much in 
the bird way. At Redruth we walked to a monument on a hill, 
covered with rough granite boulders and ferns, where we found a 
Meadow Pipit’s nest, with eggs hard set. Between Redruth and 
Penzance, on the mud at Hayle, were a good many Whimbrel, a 
few flocks of small waders, mostly Purres, and a great many 
immature gulls, both Herring and Black-backed Gulls. At 
Penzance we walked along the beach to the place to which most 
- of the Mounts Bay fishing-boats belong, and where there were 
heaps of mackerel being constantly landed. Here there was quite a 
crowd of Herring Gulls and Lesser Black-backs, both immature 
and adult, but no young birds of the year. In numbers 
they appeared about equal, the Black-backs perhaps being 
rather more numerous. 
On May 28th we drove to the Logan Rock and walked thence 
to the Land’s End. At the Rock we saw few or no birds about, 
but as we got nearer to the Land’s End we found a few Herring 
Gulls breeding, and in some very perpendicular places there 
were Kittiwakes nesting. In some places they were very 
numerous, every ledge being crowded with them. A good many 
Razorbills also were breeding, and here and there we could see 
their eggs distinctly. ‘There were no Lesser Black-backs breed- 
ing anywhere ; in fact, we could not make out where those seen 
in Mounts Bay do breed. On the drive home from the Land’s 
End we saw a good many Magpies, and concluded that game- 
keepers are not so numerous there as at home. Perhaps a dead 
horse we saw in a field by the roadside was an attraction to 
them. : 
On the 29th we went on board the little steamer which at this 
time of year goes every day to thé Scilly Islands to bring back 
fish, carrying enormous loads of mackerel. At this time every- 
thing is given up to the mackerel, and the steamer was very full 
