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white feathers, which made a thick and soft bed for the eggs. The 

 shallow cup measured 9 in. diameter, by 2^ in. deep. While I 

 was looking at this nest the old bird was making very vigorous 

 swoops unpleasantly close to my head, uttering an angry cry each 

 time it descended. Another nest, which was placed on bare 

 ground in one of the clumps of small bushes and trees, was 

 made of moss, twigs, and dead leaves, formed into a fairly 

 solid mass, which measured at the base 15 in. diameter, the cup 

 being the same dimensions as the other one, the top edge 

 of the rim of the cup 5 in. high from the ground. The nests 

 amongst the heather were much the same as those already 

 described. In several places I noticed heaps of a small pink 

 bivalve shell. 



Guillemot (Uria troile). — I found a dead body of a Guillemot 

 on the beach at Walney Island. 



