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might go out day after day and pepper away a pound or two of shot, and 

 pay for it handsomely ; but a different class will come now — not to shoot, 

 but to see — who will pay just as well, without endangering the lives of them- 

 selves and all who accompany them ; and the beautiful birds will benefit by 

 the change. 



Mr. Bailey tells me that sometimes, when the fishermen are shooting 

 their lines, a Kittiwake will seize the bait and be pulled under with the 

 sinking cord, in which case no more is seen of him until fair weather permits 

 the fishermen to raise the lines again. 



I forgot to ask in what state such a bird would come up ; but probably 

 the anatomizers of the sea, with their busy nippers, would soon make 

 a skeleton of him, and he would return much in the condition of Montagu's 

 Fulmar : — 



" Here hangs I, John Down, for ever, 

 That often cross'd the bank for liver ; 

 Now to my sorrow and great surprise 

 Here I hang an^ anatomize.'''' 



THE ROCK-DOVE. 



This is a characteristic bird of Flamborough ; and the price set on its 

 head by Pigeon- shooters alone would be enough to make it greatly sought. 



The most ingenious expedient I heard of was tried by Lowney, who 

 thought that by letting down a net, with rings on iron rods, he would entrap 

 them wholesale. Accordingly he selected a suitable night for the venture, 

 and let the net down over Bempton Pigeon-cote, as one of the large caverns 

 is called. Instantly it was full of Pigeons, and he made certain of getting 



