XXVill DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLE OF MAN 
of the southern and western coasts ; again, beyond the little 
inlet of Port Soderick, the precipices of the Whing and 
Wallberry, now marred by the Marine Drive. North 
of the curving Bay of Douglas, whose expanse is entirely 
occupied by the growing town, Banks’s Howe has again 
rocky steeps, especially Lag-y-Berry, a nesting site of Jack- 
daw and Raven. This also has been intruded on by the 
electric railway. To the pretty creek of Groudle succeeds 
Clay Head, high, with steep and craggy brows, but no 
sea-birds seem to nest either there or on Banks’s Howe. 
The pleasant coves of Garwick form the south end of 
Laxey Bay, a sandy crescent with steep sides, in the head 
of which the village of old Laxey nestles, and on the other 
side of which are good cliffs with a Herring Gull colony. 
A few Herring Gulls also nest on the lower brows of South 
Maughold. Maughold Head’ itself, with its curious humped 
outline and picturesque pinnacled stacks, has a considerable 
colony of the same bird, together with some Shags; from it 
the rocks gradually subside into the sands of Ramsey Bay, 
along which the white town, ‘shining by the sea,’ lies low 
under the lofty background hills, North Barrule conspicuous 
over all. 
As will be noted from the above description, the 
Herring Gull is the dominant sea-bird of the Manx 
coast; the Shag breeds pretty abundantly on the west and 
south-west, where the true rock-birds, the Razorbill and 
Guillemot, and more locally the Puffin, also abound. The 
Kittiwake, Black Guillemot, and Lesser Black-backed Gull 
are local. The Kestrel, the Chough, the Grey Crow, and 
the Jackdaw are conspicuous inhabitants of the cliff, and 
the Raven and Peregrine have their immemorial stations. 
1 Close under the landward side of the Head lies the great churchyard, with 
its little ancient church and many carved stones of varied dates, one of the most 
interesting places in Man. One of the holy wells of the isle is on the steep sea- 
ward brow, and the headland commands beautiful views. 
