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cooing, and looked consummately liappy. There is quite a line of 

 demarcation between the nesting-places of the kittiwake and her- 

 ring-gull, the former occupying the lower (as has been stated), 

 the latter the upper half of the same cliffs, but the nests of the 

 herring-gull are not so numerous, nor are they, either here or 

 anywhere else that I have seen them, in a continuous row like 

 those of the kittiwake. They appear singly and irregularly dotting 

 over the face of the clifP. 



Audubon mentions kittiwakes breeding in great numbers on 

 the Gannet Rock of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the situa- 

 tions chosen for the nests, &c., were such as have been described. 

 He adds, however, that — "No other species of gull was seen 

 about the rock," and that he has " regularly observed that each 

 species of this genus breeds far apart, although at all other sea- 

 sous it may associate with others." On the eastern side of the 

 Atlantic it is not so. About the locality under consideration — 

 Horn Head — five species breed, the kittiwake keeping nearest to 

 the water, and the others occupying the higher portion of the 

 same cliffs. 



At Acliil, in June 1834, we were told that numbers of this 

 gull breed on Bills rock, off that island, and we saw many 

 on the lofty clifl's of the Great Isle of Arran, Galway Bay. 

 It builds in the precipitous cliffs of Kerry, and off that coast, 

 in great numbers, on the smaller Skellig island (about 500 of 

 them to 1 of any other species of gull) and a few on the larger 

 island of that name ;'^ also at Tearaght rock, riear the Blaskets, 

 very numerouslyt (1850). They likewise nidify on Bull Island, 

 a little southward, off the coast of Cork, and on the precipitous 

 cliffs of that county, as weU as of Waterford : — about Hel- 

 vick Head, they were observed in profusion in the summer of 

 1838. J They breed at the Saltees, off Wexford, in great num- 

 bers, where it was observed — "Mai/ 15. Some birds have arrived 

 and made nests, but only the smaller number contain eggs ; on the 

 24th of June they had eggs and young; and on the 15th of July 



* !Mr. V\. Chute. t Mr. "Win. AuJrews. % Mr. R. Davis, jun. 



