. An Eider Colony SO arranged that each individual does not interfere with its neighbor. I recall with much pleasure an occasion when, from a ship becalmed in a thick fog off the southern shore of Lab- rador, within sound of the breakers, I undertook to find something about the lay of the land and the chance of har- borage by paddling in a small boat toward the shore. I had hardly lost sight of the ship when my boat glided into an assemblage of eider ducks, where the mothers, with their

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