. Wild birds and their haunts (a book for students and sportsmen) . ld stations, and are nowemployed in all the accessories of incubation, affordinglessons to the ornithological student which he will in vainlook for elsewhere ; the very rocks are lighted up, andwould seem to take a brightness from the hurry around,while the cries of the inhabitants, discordant alone,harmonise with the scene. During the same season, upon the low sandy or muddycoasts, or extensive merses, where the tide recedes formiles, and the only interruption on the outlineis the slight undulation of some mussel-scaups, thed
. Wild birds and their haunts (a book for students and sportsmen) . ld stations, and are nowemployed in all the accessories of incubation, affordinglessons to the ornithological student which he will in vainlook for elsewhere ; the very rocks are lighted up, andwould seem to take a brightness from the hurry around,while the cries of the inhabitants, discordant alone,harmonise with the scene. During the same season, upon the low sandy or muddycoasts, or extensive merses, where the tide recedes formiles, and the only interruption on the outlineis the slight undulation of some mussel-scaups, thedark colour of some bed of Zostera Marina contrastingagainst the long bright crest of the surf, or in the middledistance some bare posts set up as a land-mark, or thetimbers of some ill-fated vessels rising above the quick-sand, there reigns, on the contrary, a solitude of anotherkind ; it is now broken only by the distant roll of the surf,by the shrill pipe of the ring-dotterel, or the glance of itsflight as it rises noiselessly ; a solitary gull or tern that has. KITTIWAKES NESTING. To face page 12 Authors Note lagged from the flock may sail along, uttering as it were anunwilling inward sound as it passes the intruder ; every-thing is calm and still, the sensation increased by the hotglimmer that spreads along the sands; there is no voice,there is no animal life. During winter the scene may at first sight appear nearlysimilar ; the warm and flickering haze is changed for alight that can be seen into ; the noise of the suige comesdeeper through the clear air of frost, and with it at in-tervals hoarse sounds and shrill whistles, to which the earis unaccustomed; acres of dark masses are seen, whichmay be taken for low rocks or scaups, and the line of thesea in the bays contains something which rises and falls,and seems as if it were about to be cast on shore with everycoming swell. To sportsmen these signs are familiar, and they knowtheir meaning; but to one who has for the first
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