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EXCURSION TO TENBY. 
for a wide distance round. Several successful photographs 
of the castle were taken by one of the party, Mr. Potts, who 
was very active in photographing the various objects of 
interest met with in the excursions, and took more than forty 
photographs. 
Manorbere Castle, five miles from Tenby, is picturesquely 
situated on the southern coast, and affords a particularly 
good example of an ancient baronial residence ; it is in good 
preservation, and a portion is now occupied as a summer 
residence by a gentleman’s family. 
Lydstep Caves, four miles from Tenby, are a special 
locality for marine specimens ; the best portions are only 
accessible at low tides, and abound in well-stocked rock pools. 
The rocks are very bold, and present a striking appearance 
from the beach at low water, with their caves and natural 
arches. Amongst the marine objects found there was 
Tubularia indivisa, a lovely rose-coloured polype, growing in 
a small sheltered hollow of the rock. 
Stack Rocks was a long excursion, sixteen miles from 
Tenby, where two detached pinnacles of rock, 300 feet in height, 
stand out in the sea. . These isolated rocks are the special 
resort of enormous numbers of birds, which have bred there 
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annually from time ‘immemorial; and they completely cover 
the whole of the top of the rocks, and the ledges on the face. 
The birds are chiefly Guillemots, called locally “ Elegugs,” 
and are conspicuous from their white breasts, and they 
present a striking appearance of large white patches on the 
rocks, and long white lines on the ledges of the rocks. 
One sea excursion was made in a steamer from Tenby 
along the south coast, round Linney Head, and up Milford 
Haven to Pembroke ; a very striking and beautiful view was 
obtained of the bold rocks along the coast, and particularly 
of the Stack Rocks, the steamer passing very near to the 
rocks, as the weather was fortunately suitable. While pass¬ 
ing, a gun was fired, and an extraordinary mass of birds rose 
up suddenly into the air, leaving the rocks black where they 
were before white. 
It is only during the period of rearing their young that 
the Guillemots frequent the ledges and crevices of the 
precipitous sea cliffs, appearing about April and leaving in 
August; performing a partial migration, as after the young 
are full grown they forsake the breeding stations and" keep 
some distance out to sea, and until the following spring only 
occasional birds are seen in shore. The number of these 
birds congregated together at the breeding stations is 
astonishing; the ledges or shelves of the cliffs are simply 
