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crowded with guillemots, shags, cormorants or gulls ; they 

 are thick on the outlying rocks and on the cliffs. After 

 September, except for cormorants and shags, not 50 sea birds 

 will be seen on any day. Indeed in December, cliffing round 

 the island, I only saw three gulls during one whole afternoon. 

 Similarly, puffins congregate on the Amfroques (the Humps) 

 and form large flocks in the breeding season, but hardly 

 any are seen in the winter ; but even then gulls are numerous 

 along the front of the town, for there food is abundant. 



Mr. E. D. Marquand pointed out that the migratory 

 impulse was not by any means universal in the same species. 

 For example, swallows, which are summer migrants in Northern 

 Europe, are permanent residents in parts of Africa, and the 

 Kobin, that remains with us all the year, is a migratory species 

 in Sweden. Mr. Tanner and Mr. De La Mare also took part 

 in the discussion. 



Monthly Meeting held on April 8th, 1908, Mr. F. L. Tanner, 

 L.D,S., in the chair, 



Mr. G. F. Alles exhibited a series of chipped flints which 

 he had collected in a field near Doyle's column. The 

 Secretary said they had years ago been found plentifully there, 

 as well as in several other places — and it was supposed by some 

 that they were modern musket flints, but their colour, shape 

 and size, were against this theory. They rather support the 

 belief that they belong to the period when these islands were 

 capped with chalk, and are the remaining evidences of the 

 denudation that subsequently occurred. Mr. J. Sinel gave an 

 interesting account of the exploration of the Cotte de la 

 Chevre, in Jersey, some 25 years ago, in which he found 

 worked flints and arrowheads, as well as other undoubted 

 relics of early human occupation. 



Mr. Linwood Pitts exhibited one of the old square 

 lanterns that used to be carried about by the night watchmen 

 in this island ; also a Russian copper coin dated 1798, found 

 in the Canichers, probably belonging to the Russian troops 

 stationed in Guernsey in 1800. A curious copper cr asset 

 which he also exhibited, was considered to be of comparatively 

 recent date. 



Mr. H. E. Marquand showed an odd-looking printer's 

 candlestick, and said he knew for a fact that similar 

 candlesticks Avere used by Guernsey printers early in the 

 last century, say about 1820. 



