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the steamer. When it got up, its flight was just like a 
Gull’s, 
BLACK-HEADED GULL, Larus ridibundus, Linn, 
Hovering about the military slaughter-house, 
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, Larus fuscus, Linn. 
GANNET, Sula bassana, (Linn.). 
Several seen between Cadiz and Gibraltar, 
PurFIN, Fratercula arctica (Linn.). 
I- was shown a young one at a chymist’s, being stuffed. 
EARED GREBE, Podiceps nigricollis, Sundev, 
A Grebe was swimming in one of the moats, which I am 
nearly sure was of this species. 
Military strictness reigns at Gibraltar. At 5.45 p.m. a 
gun is fired, the band begins to play, and the gates of the 
town are closed for the night ; after which no one is allowed 
to pass the lines on any pretence, and benighted travellers 
must find their way back to St. Roque, or sleep on the 
sand, 
THE BITER BIT. 
Terns, Sandpipers, and Crows, are known to have been 
caught by cockles and mussels, and to have suffered a lin- 
gering death by starvation, Instances are recorded of the 
Pewit, Water-rail, and Razorbill having met a like fate. 
Made bold by hunger, they incautiously inserted their beaks 
