ON FLAMBOROUGH HEAD. 



By Mr. J. H. GURNEY, Jun. 



I HAVE made two visits to this noted headland to study the birds that 

 frequent it — once in the month of March, and once in June — and have noted 

 down a great many interesting facts, a few of which are partly new. 



Flamborough is the largest nursery of our rock-breeding sea-fowl 

 in England. It is also the best-known, and, I may add, the most accessible. 

 Those of us who are naturalists and who have never seen it, would do well, 

 the next holiday that they get, to take the train from Bridlington, and from 

 there get over to the headland as best they can. A trap can easily be hired, 

 though it is nothing of a walk. 



Yet it is not at the actual headland itself that the cliffs will be found to 

 be highest. It is more to the west, about Bempton, that they attain their 

 greatest elevation ; and there {B.t Bempton), in the summer time, no one 

 who has come over to see the birds need fear that he will be disappointed ; 

 for all up the face of that grand precipice, reaching to the height of 400 feet, 

 will be seen a moving multitude of Guillemots and Puffins, Razorbills and 

 Kittiwakes. It is a scene that the painter's brush alone can describe. 



I should like to draw a picture of Flamborough on a stormy day, when 



