20 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 
to a collector at Saint Pierre, but for the last two years the 
keeper admits that nothing but Larks and small birds have 
been got.* 
Proceeding to Boulogne, I found that most of the birds 
in the Museum there had been collected by M. Demarle 
of Douai, but the rare Capped Petrel bears the name of 
Lebeau Lonquety as donor. There are local specimens (as 
indicated by two blue lines upon the ticket) of the Spotted 
Eagle, Crested Titmouse, King Duck, and Caspian Tern, 
besides four Purple Waterhens, which may not have been 
really wild. Only the Eagle and Titmouse are included in 
the list in Bertrand’s History of Boulogne by Demarle, en- 
titled “Oiseaux observés dans le Boulonnais.” 
And here my notes on this journey terminate. Leaving 
in a steamer at 6.30 for Folkestone I had a quick passage, 
but did not see many birds worthy of record. I have, how- 
ever, once seen Fulmar Petrels about midway in the straits. 
J mistook them at first for Gulls, until as they came nearer, 
their buoyant flight attracted my closer attention, and I 
made out what they really were. I have also sometimes 
seen great flocks of restless Scoter Ducks, particularly in 
November, 1870, near Ostend, and parties of Puffins and 
Gannets prowling along in pairs; and I have known, the 
steamer go so close to a Red-throated Diver as nearly to 
run it down. 
° A Wild Duck once flew against Happisburgh lighthouse, in Nor- 
folk, broke the glass and indented the copper; but this is nothing 
to a story of what happened at the Lundy Island lighthouse. One 
frosty night a large flock came full tilt against the lantern, the glass of 
which was 5/16 of an inch thick, which they immediately broke. 
Seven of the foremost were killed by the concussion, but the rest flew 
through the breach, and actually smashed the glass on the other side, 
leaving nine more of their number slain. The relics of this gallant 
band passed through in safety over the dead bodies of their com- 
rades ; and the keeper, as compensation for the smash, netted a haul 
of eight couple of Wild Ducks. ; 
