The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ^ ledges and uneven. THE LOOM OR BRUNNICH S GUILLEMOT. Swedish, Alka. {Uria Briinnichii, Sabine.) places afford room for the hatching fowl. On the guillemot-fells proper, eggs lie beside eggs in close rows from the crown ofthe cliff to near the sea level, and the whole fell is also closelycovered with seafowl, which besides in flocks of thousands andthousands fly to and from the cliffs, filling the air with theirexceedingly unpleasant scream. The eggs are laid, w
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ^ ledges and uneven. THE LOOM OR BRUNNICH S GUILLEMOT. Swedish, Alka. {Uria Briinnichii, Sabine.) places afford room for the hatching fowl. On the guillemot-fells proper, eggs lie beside eggs in close rows from the crown ofthe cliff to near the sea level, and the whole fell is also closelycovered with seafowl, which besides in flocks of thousands andthousands fly to and from the cliffs, filling the air with theirexceedingly unpleasant scream. The eggs are laid, without traceof a nest, on the rock, which is either bare or only covered withold birds dung, so closely packed together, that in 1858 from aledge of small extent, which I reached by means of a rope fromthe top of the fell, I collected more than half a barrel-fullof eggs. Each bird has but one very large agg, grey pricked 88 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [cuap. with brown, of very variable size and form. After it has beensat upon for some time, it is covered with a thick layer of birdsdung, and in this way the hunters are accustomed to distinguishuneatab
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