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BLACK-HEADED GULLS OF ESSEX.
The description of this plant seems to apply to Pneumaria
maritima Hill ; but this is not a likely plant for Lincolnshire or
Essex. Is the "Isle of Fowle" Fowlness, or is it Foulney, off
the coast of Lancashire ? Pneumaria is recorded for "one of the
Iles about Lankashire" in Parkinson's Theatrum p. 767, on the
authority of Mr. Thomas Hesket, under the name of Lancashire
Buglosse.
p. 97. " Lychnis arvensis Anglica . . agro proximo retro aedes C. D.
Thoms Lucas equitis Colchesteriensis agri." [Silene anglica L., as in the
Theatrum, p. 638].
p. 105. " Pulegium regium vulgare majus . . media via regia qua itur
Londino Colchestriam." [Mentha pulegium L., as in the Theatrum, p. 29].
p. 149. Lonchitis altera minor. Hujus species tota minor reperitur prope
Colchestriam . . . quam primus mihi ostendit Thorn. Boxton, Pharma-
copaeus ibidem doctissimus." [A small form of Lomaria spicant Desv., as on
p. 1043 of the Theatrum.]
p. 164. " Pusillum Pisum aliud sylvestre, spontaneum . . In Essexiae
autem comitatu" and also at King's-Ley, Kent. [Probably Lathyrus sylvestris
L., as on pp. 1059-60 of the Theatrum.]
(To be continued.)
THE BLACK-HEADED GULLS IN ESSEX (1899).
By PERCY CLARK, B.A.
With Plate V.
THE following notes of my second annual visit paid last
summer (1899) to the Essex Gulleries, are culled from the
log of a small yacht, on board of which I was living at the time
in question. This must be my excuse for a somewhat rough and
disjointed accounts ; till it may be of interest to those Essex
naturalists who are concerning themselves in the preservation of
our seashore birds.
The report below is a most encouraging one, and in marked
contrast to the somewhat despondent tone which was forced upon
me by the depressing state of affairs when I wrote in 1898 (see
Essex Naturalist, x., p. 389).
GULLERY NO. 1.
'' June 26, 1899, Brightlingsea.
" After anchoring the yacht at high water in Beach Hole
Creek, I took the dinghy and rowed up the inlet another mile,
and very soon found the spot where the Black-headed Gulls were
breeding on the wide waste of saltings, by their sudden rise on
the wings and loud outcries as I approached.