BIRD NOTES *nd NEWS 



Circular ffetter issued flErtotorallg bg tlje ftntml J^omtrr for tlje 



fjrcrtrctt0tt of fBtrfca. 



Some Homes of the Gannet. 



Council Meetings. 



Baron von Berlepsch's Bird Colonies. 



Cotmty Council Orders, 



A Naturalist in Florida, 



Plume Sales. 



Farmers and Birds, 



CONTENTSi 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shield Com- 

 petitions — 

 Bedfordshire. 



Berkshire and Westmoreland. 

 Cumherland, 

 Hampshire, 

 Somerset, 



" Observation" and " Nature Study." 



In the Cotirts. 



To our Eeaders. 



The Boyal Society for the Protection of 



Birds- 

 Autumn Conference. 

 Fishermen and Gulls. 



No. 12.] 



London 



Hanover Squarp;, W. 



[DECEMBER, 1905. 



SOME HOMES OF 



GANNET. 



THE 



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GANNETS ON THE BASS ROCK. 

 From a Photograph by Mr. Charles Kirk, Glasgow. By kind permission. 



IpjcpiHE Bass Rock, the famous 

 mS$ British breeding-ground 

 of the Gannet, or Solan 

 Goose, and the home also of 

 many other interesting sea and 

 coast birds, is known to all natur- 

 alists as affording, in the nesting 

 season, one of the most wonderful 

 visions of wild bird life that 

 Britain has to show. The Pere- 

 grine formerly nested on its sides, 

 but deserted to neighbouring 

 islets at the time of the building 

 of the lighthouse. The collectors 

 pursued the bird thither, taking 

 the eggs regularly in defiance of 

 the law, and the police received 

 instructions from the Chief Con- 

 stable of Haddington to give 

 special attention to the matter. 

 Other birds remaining on the 

 Rock were the sport of a certain 

 class of tourists, who came out in 

 boats from the mainland to shoot 

 at the birds in their nesting- 

 places, at a time when every 

 ledge and peak was crowded with 

 sitting birds and young. This 

 wanton cruelty aroused much 

 indignation, but in August, in 

 years preceding 1905, close time 

 was over and the birds unpro- 



