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protected by law in this island, it is only here, so far as I know, 

 that L.fuscus breeds in any numbers, and the Kittiwake settle- 

 ment is the only one I have seen or heard of in the island. The 

 nesting-places of L. fuscus were two isolated rocks, and we saw 

 no birds away from the immediate neighbourhood of these. The 

 Kittiwakes occupy a cavernous situation beneath a high very steep 

 cliff. As we rounded a corner, we heard their unfamiliar note 

 breaking out amid the murmur of the Guillemots and the harsh, 

 laughing cry of the larger Herring Gulls, and immediately after- 

 wards saw a crowd of those beautiful dove-like birds in agitated 

 flight, while others sat on the ledges above the cavernous recess 

 up which the still deep water washed, the darkness of its great 

 terminal cave contrasting strongly with the glow of the sunny 

 sea-levels without. This small colony is divided into two parts, 

 though these are very close together. We landed here on low 

 and narrow weedy shelves at the foot of the precipitous wall, 

 studded with the cups of that curious sea-weed, Himanthalia 

 lorea, and one of our party climbed to several nests of the 

 Kittiwakes, but all he reached were empty, while on others, a few 

 feet above, the occupants still sat, refusing to be scared away. 



I may add that neither on this, nor on any other occasion 

 when I have been in this locality, did I see a single Black 

 Guillemot, Uria grylle, although this species has been reported 

 by other observers here, and breeds in limited numbers in other 

 localities in the Isle of Man. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO AN AVIFAUNA OF BADEN. 

 By G. Norman Douglass. 



It would be worth while to undertake the preparation of a 

 new avifauna of Baden, if, as I believe to be the case, no attempt 

 has been made since 1849 to revise Kettner's list, published in 

 that year. In this list are enumerated some 318 species, — a 

 number which Nusslin has reproduced in his short general 

 survey of 1883, — and, though some of them may be safely struck 

 out, the balance might be restored by the addition of others 

 he has omitted, such as the Yellow-browed Warbler, Red-breasted 

 Flycatcher, and one or two still more " occasional stragglers*" As 



