34 Excursions. 



Dinner was .served on the journey and Bridlington was 

 reached late that night. The following- morning' the 

 party started off in brakes under the guidance of Mr. A. 

 Boynton, who had made the local arrangements. A 

 short visit was paid to Flamborough Head, its lighthouse 

 and cliffs adjoining, and the journey continued to Bempton. 

 Cliff-climbers were ready to start and fine views were 

 obtained of the birds as well as of the climbers and their 

 method of w r ork, which was fully explained in a specially 

 printed extract from Mr. Nelson's forthcoming book on the 

 "Birds of Yorkshire/' which the author, who personalty 

 acted as cicerone, kindly distributed among the visitors. 

 Luncheon was served in a tent which had been erected near 

 the edge of the cliff, and, after a photograph had been taken 

 of the party, most of the members returned to Bridlington 

 in time for the afternoon train to London, while a few 

 remained to re-visit the Bempton cliffs on the following- 

 day. Of the innumerable eggs brought up by the 

 climbers, many were bought and taken home to the cabinets 

 of egg collectors, where they will for a long time remind 

 their owners of the Congress of Ornithologists in 1905. 



All the excursions were well attended ; while practically 

 the whole Congress, i.e., nearly 200 members, went to Tring, 

 about 150 accepted the invitation of the Duke of Bedford to 

 Woburn Park, 100 assembled at Cambridge, and about 50 took 

 part in the excursion to the Bempton Cliffs. 



