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particular headland alluded to, but at the rocks of the Horn 
generally, in June 1832, the kittiwake was greatly more numerous 
than the herring-gull. The later period of the season, however, 
may have a great effect on their comparative numbers. 
Qn a visit made to the islands of Arran, off Galway Bay, in the 
summer of 1834, by Mr. B. Ball and myself, the herring-gull 
was found in great numbers breeding on the lofty cliffs of the 
largest island ; and we were told of Bill's Bock, off Achil, being 
another nesting-place. Under Larus fuscus, a low rocky islet* 
on the Kerry coast is mentioned, on the authority of the late 
Mr. T. E. Neligan, as resorted to by that species and the present 
for the purpose of nidification. It has abundance of ordinary 
building haunts around this coast, as the Magharee Islands, the 
cliffs at both entrances to Dingle harbour, the small Skellig rock, 
and similar places.f On the adjoining coast of Cork they espe- 
cially abound in the breeding-season ; at the Bull and Cow Bocks, 
off Dursey Island ; the cliffs of Bear Island, and those at Cape 
Clear — they also build in numbers along the coast between the 
Sovereign islands and the Beannies, both inclusive, where the nests 
are made of dried grass, and a few of them easily reached ; but 
the greater number are inaccessible. || On the coast of Waterford, 
and at suitable cliffs round to that of Dublin, they nidify ; — among 
others here, Howth, the islands of Ireland's Eye and Lambay, 
may be named. 
In numerous localities distant from breeding-haunts, I have in 
the midst of the season of incubation remarked, in full adult 
plumage, one or two pair of these gulls, which doubtless took no 
concern with the cares of the world in connection with offspring. 
* Audubon (‘Orn. Biog. 5 vol. iii. p. 589) gives a most interesting account of 
colonies of this species, that on Whitehead Island, at the entrance of the Bay of 
Fundy, build on trees in consequence of their nests on the ground having been 
robbed. He also mentions (p. 592) these birds as rising higher and higher into the 
air with mussels until they are broken by the fall. Mr. John D. Ferguson (Dunve- 
gan Cottage) informs me that this is a common habit of the gulls in the island of 
Skye (where L. argentatus and L. canus are the prevailing species), and may be 
witnessed any day on the shores towards the entrance of Dunvegan Loch. 
f Mr. R. Chute. % Mr. J. F. Townsend. || Mr. R. Warren, jun. 
