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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



COCKERHAM MOSS.* 



Under the above title Mr. J. R. Charnley gives a short and 

 interesting account of a well-known Lancashire gullery. He 

 gives many useful particulars of the Black-headed Gulls now 

 breeding in the district. The Cockerham Gulls it appears are 



Nest of Black-headed Gull on Cockerham Moss. 



probably part of the Walney Island stock, having first estab- 

 lished themselves on a locality now occupied by part of 

 Fleetwood. The pamphlet is illustrated by four process blocks 

 of eggs and young birds — one of which we are able to reproduce. 



YORK WALLS AND EARTHWORKS. 



At York, in recent years, a resolution was submitted to the 

 City Council to the effect that the moat adjoining the Lord 

 Mayor's Walk be filled in with rubbish, but the proposal had 

 met with so much criticism in the press that it was not agreed 



1905 April I. 



*'J. M. Wigley, Lancaster, price 6d. 



