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presence disturbing the birds, tliey flew down to the sea in a 
continuous rush. As they passed the boat the stream was so thick, 
that one of the crew knocked down a Ilazorhill with a hoatdiook. 
Hound Island, whose summit, some one hundred and fifty feet 
above the sea, looked inaccessible from the boat, was our next field 
for search. After an exciting landing, owing to t!io swell, wo 
managed to reach the lop by a rugged path, and found the 
accumulation of earth there riddled with holes made by the 
Ihifllns. This island is considered their chief haunt, but as the 
Trinity House is now about to erect a lighthouse on the rock, 
many of the birds will have to find a fresh home. 
The only other birds nesting there were the two usual species of 
(lull and the Hazorbill ; but wo felt repaid for our climb by 
the splendid view of the isles which we obtained. On regaining 
the boat we rowed to the yacht, well satisfied with the result 
of otir day’s work. Our evening was fully occupied in blowing the 
eggs Avhich we had taken, and it was late before we turned in. 
On jNfonday morning we decided to visit Annet, which is of 
greater interest to the ornithologist than any other of these 
isles, on account of its being the nesting-place of a largo 
colony of the IManx Shearwater, a bird Avhich has been 
observed off the Horfolk coast a good many times, and in 
some few instances picked up inland in the county after severe 
gales. It has no known breeding station on the east coast 
of either Scotland or England. I have seen it in July off the 
coast of Durham, and it is of frequent occurrence at Elamborough. 
To see it in its nesting haunts one must visit the western coast of 
rjreat Britain, and the prospect of talcing its egg and studying 
it at home Avas one of my greatest reasons for going to the 
Isles of Scilly. 
Willoughby, avIio called this bird “The I’uflin of the Isle 
of Man,” from its having been found breeding in the Calf of Man, 
Avrites of it in the following Avords taken from the English edition of 
‘The Ornithology,’ translated by John Bay and published in 1G78. 
“At the South end of the Isle of Man lies a little Islet, divided 
from Man by a narrow channel, called the Calf of I^Ian, on Avhich 
are no habitations, but only a cottage or two lately built. This 
Islet is full of Conif'R, Avhich the PniJins, coming yearly dislodge. 
