THE BIBDS OF DUNGENESS. 65 



breaking through one is immediately in very deep water. Masses of this 

 dead vegetation had broken away from the edges, and were floating 

 about the surfaces of the water, and on nearly all of them one could, 

 with the glasses, distinguish eggs lying right on the surface of the 

 debris, without any attempt at nests. I only saw two clutches with 

 three eggs, the rest of the nests I could see having only one egg in 

 them. July 16th-21st. I only saw old birds on the part of the beach 

 that I visited. 



Heeeing-Gull (L. argentatus), Lessee Black-backed Gull (L. 

 fuscus), Great Black-backed Gull (L. marinas). — There were numbers 

 of these three species on the beach in both mature and immature 

 plumage. They seemed to make a special haunt of the pools where 

 the Black-headed Gulls breed. 



Guillemot (Uria troile). — I picked up a dried specimen of this bird 

 amongst the debris on the beach. 



Little Geebe (Podicipes fluviatilis). — May 10th-14th. Breeding 

 in considerable numbers in the ditches and pieces of water on the 

 marsh-land. I found nests with fresh eggs and eggs just hatching out 

 on May 13th. 



