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cooing, and looked consummately happy. There is quite a line of 
demarcation between the nesting-places of the kittiwake and her- 
ring-gull, the former occupying the lower (as has been stated), 
the latter the upper half of the same cliffs, but the nests of the 
herring-gull are not so numerous, nor are they, either here or 
anywhere else that I have seen them, in a continuous row like 
those of the kittiwake. They appear singly and irregularly dotting 
over the face of the cliff. 
Audubon mentions kittiwakes breeding in great numbers on 
the Gannet Eock of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the situa- 
tions chosen for the nests, &c., were such as have been described. 
He adds, however, that — “No other species of gull was seen 
about the rock,” and that he has “ regularly observed that each 
species of this genus breeds far apart, although at all other sea- 
sons it may associate with others.” On the eastern side of the 
Atlantic it is not so. About the locality under consideration — 
Horn Head — five species breed, the kittiwake keeping nearest to 
the water, and the others occupying the higher portion of the 
same cliffs. 
At Acliil, in June 1834, we were told that numbers of this 
gull breed on Bills rock, off that island, and we saw many 
on the lofty cliffs of the Great Isle of Arran, Galway Bay. 
It builds in the precipitous cliffs of Kerry, and off that coast, 
in great numbers, on the smaller Skellig island (about 500 of 
them to 1 of any other species of gull) and a few on the larger 
island of that name ;* also at Tearaght rock, near the Blaskets, 
very numerouslyt (1850). They likewise nidify on Bull Island, 
a little southward, off the coast of Cork, and on the precipitous 
cliffs of that county, as well as of Waterford : — about Hel- 
vick Head, they were observed in profusion in the summer of 
18384 They breed at the Saltees, off Wexford, in great num- 
bers, where it was observed — “ May 15. Some birds have arrived 
and made nests, but only the smaller number contain eggs ; on the 
24th of June they had eggs and young; and on the 15th of July 
* Mr. R. Chute. 
f Mr. Wm. Andrews. 
t Mr. R. Davis, jun. 
