NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



THE FLAMBOROUGH PEREGRINES. 



It is pleasing to note that the Peregrines at Buckton have 

 again successfully reared their young. For some time it has 

 been known that the birds had returned, but it was not until 

 the ' dimming ' began that the exact locality of the nest was 

 ascertained. They have bred on the same spot as last year, 

 on the ground climbed by Hodgson, and there are two young 

 birds in full feather. There is no doubt that the interest taken 

 in these birds by the Yorkshire Naturahsts' Union is largely 

 responsible for their present safe sojourn on the chffs. 



SWINGS. 



The accompanying photograph, which was exhibited for 

 sale at a photographer's at Bridlington, is interesting as shewing 

 a typical group of ' gallant lads ' at Bempton, with their 

 * dimming ' apparatus. It is also of service as it possibly 



Photo by] [Waddington & Gibson. 



explains the term ' Hewett's Swing,' which has been heard once 

 or twice recently. From the expressions on the faces there is 

 evidently something unusually serious taking place, and in 

 front of the Lord High Executioner is apparently the culprit, 

 like King Charles at the scaffold, with the rope dangerously 

 near his cervical vertebrae. 



THE girls' realm EXTENDED. 



In the ' Girls' Realm ' for March, Magdalen F. P. Tuck, 

 who comes ' of a race whose love for the feathered fowls of the 



1909 June I. 



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