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IN your issue of September 7, p. 439, I read with some interest the note by Prince Kropotkin on the movements of seagulls upon our coasts having some connection with a coming change of weather; and that at Margate on Saturday, August 26, it was noticed such a movement was going on, the gulls passing from west of that place to the south coast, to meet, as the fishermen say, a south-west wind. It may be of interest, and as in a measure confirmatory of such a movement going on just before a marked change of weather conditions, that on Sunday evening at 5˙30 o'clock six large sea-gulls passed over this place, 400 feet above the sea (situated 2½ miles due east of Cranleigh), flying in a direction south-west by south. We very seldom see gulls so far inland, but I have seen them before flying in much the same course. The direction in which these were heading would have taken them to the coast near Portsmouth, distant about thirty-five miles; and at the elevation at which they were flying, the English Channel was no doubt visible to them, for the South Downs were at the time particularly clear.
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GODWIN-AUSTEN, H. Movement of Sea-Gulls with a Coming Change of Weather. Nature 60, 491 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060491a0
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