. British birds. Birds. BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. XVI. Spitsbergen. Again further north we met with it on small rocky islets in Lieide Bay and on Moffen Island, an extensive shingle-bank out at sea, over lat. 80° N. Then again, we found it on grassy ledges at Cloven Cliff and Vogel Hoek, and lastly at Mount Congress, Dickson Land and xAdvent Valley, on isolated pinnaxles or bastions of rock. The colonies on Bear Island were larger than any we noted in the vSpitsbergen Archipelago. f'^ -f, ^ «**-' ^'^^i^ â â¢^. NEST OF GLAUCOUS GULL. Moffen Island, Spitsbergen. [Photographed by Seton Gordon.) We l
. British birds. Birds. BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. XVI. Spitsbergen. Again further north we met with it on small rocky islets in Lieide Bay and on Moffen Island, an extensive shingle-bank out at sea, over lat. 80° N. Then again, we found it on grassy ledges at Cloven Cliff and Vogel Hoek, and lastly at Mount Congress, Dickson Land and xAdvent Valley, on isolated pinnaxles or bastions of rock. The colonies on Bear Island were larger than any we noted in the vSpitsbergen Archipelago. f'^ -f, ^ «**-' ^'^^i^ â â¢^. NEST OF GLAUCOUS GULL. Moffen Island, Spitsbergen. [Photographed by Seton Gordon.) We landed on Bear Island on June 13th in the afternoon, in spite of a fairly heavy sea. Landing on Bear Island is alwa5/s difficult and very often impossible and we were lucky to get on and off so easily. The cliffs were teeming with Fulmar Petrels {Fnlmariis glacialis), Kittiwakes {Rissa tridaciyla) and in the air, Glaucous Gulls. The Fulmars laid their single white eggs not only on the cliff faces, but on the top where the rapacious Glaucous Gulls found them easier to appropriate than on the narrow ledges and pockets of the rock. On more than one occasion we caught ihemâ-flagrante. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, Witherby & Co
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