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any of its nests are even on the Calf (where more than 
elsewhere they are formed on nearly level ground), as much 
as twenty yards inside the edge of the rocks. Mr. C. H. 
Cowley, however, tells me that he once saw, near Peel, a 
nest built on a refuse heap in a grass field, close to the 
brows, but sloping inland. His attention was drawn to it 
by the attacks made by the sitting bird on lambs which 
ran up upon the hillock. 
A small but perhaps increasing number nests on the 
coast of German about Glen Cam, and again under Knock- 
sharry, but the great western colonies begin at the ‘ Ladder’ 
on Peel Hill, and are continued round Contrary Head to 
Glenmay, being very numerous on the brows, and spread- 
ing even to the boulder-strewn shores, about Traie Cabbage." 
On the low points between Glenmay and the Lhag there 
are no nests, but the breeding ground begins again at the 
Stack (of Dalby) and is continued almost without inter- 
ruption—spots peculiarly favoured being easily known by 
their rich green colour—to the near neighbourhood of Flesh- 
wick. At the Gob yn Ushtey, on the steep verdant slopes 
to the north of that point, they are particularly numerous, 
and among the rushes of earth and stone which descend 
from the wild mountain sides about Lhag ny Keilley and 
the Slock, there are many nests. Bradda again is well 
tenanted, especially the slopes about Ghaw Dhoo and the 
Carn, which bear perhaps the densest Gull population 
anywhere on the main island, but strange to say, few or 
none breed on the very similar coast between Port Erin 
and the Calf Sound. On the Calf there are immense 
numbers, especially on the southern promontories, and on 
the lofty brows between the lighthouse and Gibbdale. 
Returning to the main island, Herring Gulls breed 
1 So called from the growth there of sea-kale (Crambe maritima). Such mix- 
tures of Manx and English occasionally occur in our place-names. 
