Notes and Comments. 179 
133 species are resident and breed. = 185 
52 species are regular summer visitors,; breeding 
and breed. species. 
55 species are regular autumn, winter or spring visitors ; 
not breeding. 
Q species are occasional visitors ; used to breed. 
I1g2 species are occasional visitors; never known to 
breed. To this number the American Pipit falls 
to be added. 
I species is extinct (Great Auk). 
Total 442 species admitted unquestionably. 
3 varieties are named in the List, but not numbered. 
35 species, of which the history is doubtful, are named 
in the List within brackets, and are not numbered. 
480 birds in all are thus found named in this List. 
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Nesting of the Common Gull on the Farne Islands.— 
During visits to the Farne Islands in the nesting season for 
several consecutive years, I have noted the presence of the 
Common Gull (Larus canus) there. Usually there would be two 
or three, or up to over half a dozen birds on the rocky portion 
of the Knoxes Island. They were chiefly adult birds, and it 
was evident from their behaviour that they were not nesting, 
but were simply resting there. On July 11th, Ig10, however, 
a gull of this species was flying round and round over the 
“Inner Wideopens ” in quite an anxious manner, and calling 
all the time. It was evident that it was a nesting bird— 
probably with young ones that had already left the nest. I 
tried to watch it down, but was unsuccessful, as I had to leave 
the island in half-an-hour, and any unaided attempt to find 
the chicks in the dense undergrowth of this island would not 
only have proved futile, but would have been disastrous to 
the many hundreds of other young birds that seek shelter there- 
in. Before leaving I pointed the bird out to Darling, the 
watcher. Mr. H. A. Paynter, the Honorary Secretary of the 
Farne Islands’ Association, wrote me later that he and both 
of the bird-watchers there, had subsequently often seen the 
three young ones, together with the two old Common Gulls on 
the Inner Wideopens.—H. B. Bootu, Ben Rhydding. 
About twenty-five years ago, I identified a pair of Common 
Gulls, nesting on the Outer Wideopens. The late John Hancock 
was much interested in this occurrence, as it was the first pair 
he had known to nest there. If my memory serves me cor- 
rectly, he took one or more eggs from the nest.—R. FORTUNE. 
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