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Lesser Black-backed Gull, L.fuscus, Linn. — Is nearly, if 

 not quite, banished from the island as a breeding bird. I have 

 seen a pair or two in different years, but have never found their 

 nests. 



Herring Gull, L. argentatus, Linn.— Breeds in some num- 

 bers, perhaps about fifty or sixty pairs. The nests are usually 

 placed on shelving rocks, where they slope from a tolerable height 

 to the water. From this circumstance they are easy of access 

 and often robbed ; hence the birds are diminishing in numbers. 

 From Howth and Ireland's Eye they have been very nearly 

 banished. On the south side of Lambay they have a haunt of 

 their own. In other parts of the island they breed alongside 

 of the other sea-fowl. The eggs are usually three in number and 

 laid in the beginning of May. 



Common Gull, L. canus, Linn. — Is included in Watters' list 

 of birds breeding on Lambay ; he states, however, that only a few 

 pairs nest there. Thompson does not mention it, and I have 

 never seen it on the island. It seldom selects a maritime 

 breeding station. 



Manx Shearwater, Puffinus anglorum, has long been known 

 to breed on Lambay Island, though I am not aware that the eggs 

 have ever been brought thence. As my observations on this bird 

 at Lambay have already been published, in connection with 

 remarks on its singular note (p. 81), it will be unnecessary to 

 repeat them here. 



[In reference to the Ornithology of the Dublin coast, attention may 

 be directed to articles by Mr. Blake-Kaoz in earlier volumes of 'The 

 Zoologist ' (1805 — 1869), entitled "Ornithological Notes from the Co. 

 Dublin," and to his account of " The Migratory and Wandering Birds of 

 Co. Dublin" (Zool. 1866, pp. 220, 309); as also Mr. H. L. Cox's articles 

 on the " Birds of Dublin and Wicklow" (Zool. 1879, pp. 449, 477).— Ed.] 



