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of the ^N'orth Eastern Railway Company, the eight o'clock p. 31. 

 train was stopped to receive them. 



The following birds and plants were observed on the islands. 



BIRDS. 



Charadrius Maticula, Ring Dotterel. 



Scematopus ostralegus, Oyster Catcher. 



Larus marinus, one specimen. 



L. fuscus, Lesser Black -backed Gull. 



Z. argentatus^ Herring Gull, very scarce. 



Z. tridactylus, Kittiwake. 



Sterna Cantiaca, Sandwich Tern. 



8. Mrundo, Common Tern. 



S. paradisea, Arctic Tern. 



Uria Troile, Guillemot. 



PLANTS. 



Silene maritima, very abundant. 



Potentilla reptans. 



Armeria maritima. 



Iloncheneja peploides. 



Cochlear ia officinalis. 



Leontodon Taraxacum, Linn. 



Sedum acre. 



On the Links between Korth Sunderland and Bamborough, 

 Cynoglossum officinale and Hyoscyamus niger were observed in 

 great abundance. 



Various historians have graphically described the Fame Is- 

 lands, and none more so than Pennant, who in his Tour in Scot- 

 land, Vol. I., p. 46, has given the following account of the Tarne 

 Islands, which, for terseness and clearness of description cannot 

 well be excelled. ' ' Opposite to Bamborough lie the Fame Islands, 

 which form two groups of little isles and rocks to the number of 

 seventeen, but at low water the points of others appear above 

 the surface. The nearest isle to the shore is that called the 

 House Island, which lies exactly one mile sixty -eight chains 

 from the coast ; the most distant is about seven or eight miles. 

 The House Island, the sequestered spot where St. Cuthbert 



