224 Report of the Meetings for 1895. 



fishery, and inapplicable to rocks. Possibly Salmon sought 

 the deep water surrounding them, from its being diluted 

 with the fresh water of the Strynde. Another instance of 

 the term is close at hand in the Pickie Stells, which are 

 the tall splintered rocks a little to the westwards, near the 

 issue of the Heathery Carr or Muir burn. Here again the 

 Salmon might be attracted to the fresh influx of the stream 

 of the moorland flavour. The Pickie is the Pickmaw {Larus 

 ridihundus), which may even yet roost here. The term pick 

 it derives from its call note. Like the Terns it is also 

 named Pictarnie : Tama in Swedish and taerne in Danish, 

 according to Jamieson, being forms of the word Tern. 



Earnsheugh, or Eagle's heugh, western camp is 484 feet 

 high ; and the eastern camp, to which adjoins a triangular 

 old fold, is 491 feet. The Tunlaw Hill behind rises to 497 

 feet. Tunlaw, or the Townlaw, is pronounced Tinley. The 

 Tunlaw Brae is adjacent Old traces of fortifications lie 

 about. From the name, it may have been an Anglo-Saxon 

 settlement on a disused native British site. 



Many years ago, when visiting this part of the coast with 

 Mr Archibald Jerdon, he gathered the rare Moss, Neckera 

 crlftpa, on the Uily Strynde Brae. The following is the 

 record : — " Mr Jerdon found it on the sea-bank at Earns- 

 heugh, where the water of •Coldingham Loch runs to the 

 sea, on the eastern side. I have visited the spot since, and 

 oV)taiiied it in considerable quantity. Arenaria verna was 

 growing amongst it." (J. Hardy on Moss-Flora of the 

 Eastern Borders, Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, v., 472.) On a 

 subsequent occasion I roused a Green Sandpiper {Totanus 

 ochropus) from the V)ank over which the waters of the 

 Strynde fall, which flew westwards across the heugh opposite 

 towards the shore, and disappeared round the point. I had 

 a distinct view of the bird, with which I was familiar in 

 Oldcambus Dean. 



The notice of the Flora in the neighbourhood is not meant 

 to be exhaustive. Recourse mu.st be had for a fuller view 

 to Dr Johnston's "Natural History of the Eastern Borders," 

 and "Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed"; and also to the 

 extensive enumeration in Mr A. A. Carr's " History of 

 Coldingham Priory," Edinburgh, 1836, pp. 183-195. On 

 re-examining my own notes of former years, I have to 



