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not all of the same size. A few pairs of Stock-Doves (Columba 
cenas) and Wheatears (Saxicola cnanthe) nest in the Rabbit- 
burrows, and the Sky-Lark (Alauda arvensis) and Meadow-Pipit 
(Anthus pratensis) are moderately common. Here and there a 
pair of Oystercatchers (Hematopus ostralegus) nest in the gullery, 
and this bird is extremely plentiful on the sandhills from the 
confines of the gullery to Drigg. A few pairs nest on the 
shingle fringing the dunes, but the majority are on the dunes 
themselves. When walking across the warren I always had 
from six to a dozen Oystercatchers in clamorous attendance on 
me as I invaded their particular nesting-grounds, and at low 
tide the red-billed black and white birds were dotted conspicuously 
all over the mud-banks in the harbour. A few pairs of Lesser 
Terns (Sterna minuta) nest in company with Ringed Plovers 
(digialitis hiaticola) on the shingle near Drigg Point, but neither 
species intrudes upon the gullery; and, indeed, with the excep- 
tion of foraging parties of Starlings (Stwrnus vulgaris), Rooks 
(Corvus frugilegus), and Jackdaws (C. monedula), I have already 
enumerated all the birds that I saw there. On some marshy 
eround between the sandhills and the Irt several pairs of Lap- 
wings (Vanellus vulgaris) and Redshanks (Totanus calidris) had 
their quarters. On July 8th I saw young Redshanks which were 
just able to fly. For some days a pair of Lapwings with a brood 
of downy chicks resorted to a patch of bladder-wrack many 
yards below high-water mark at the mouth of the Esk, whither 
it was obvious that the old birds must have led the young ones 
across the sand each day when the tide fell. 
In the latter part of June, Ravenglass is dominated by the 
Black-headed Gull. From the village one hears the day-long ~ 
clamour of the birds on the sandhills, which, indeed, never ceases 
during the short midsummer nights. Old and young birds are 
spread all over the harbour at low water, and adults are con- 
stantly passing to and from the gullery on their expeditions 
inland for food. They are very tame, feeding at the cottage- 
doors and standing in rows on the ridge-tiles of the houses in the 
village.* The numbers decreased daily during my stay, and at 
* The familiarity of the Black-headed Gull when not molested is remark- 
able. During the past winter, on London Bridge, the Thames Embankment, 
and in St. James’s Park, I have had no difficulty in inducing the birds to 
