94 THE SEA-GULL. 
We saw last summer, also, a Gull well known 
to northern tourists, which for twenty years has 
inhabited one of the inner green-courts at Aln- 
wick Castle, and has outlived two or three com- 
panions. It is an interesting bird, of a venerable 
appearance ; but, as it has been described in 
books, more need not be said of it. 
In one of the towers of this same Castle, also, we 
were shown a pair of perfect bird-skeletons, under 
a glass shade, the history of which is mysteri- 
ous. They are the skeletons of a pair of jack- 
daws, which had built in one of the upper towers 
of the Castle, and had been found in their present 
state, apparently nestled together. From the ac- 
count given us by the porter, an intelligent old 
man, they appeared not to have been discovered in 
any confined place, where they might have died 
from starvation, but by their own tower, on the 
open roof, as if they had been death-stricken side 
by side. 
