. Shells and sea-life. THE FARALLOXE MULi:. sold in the markets at about the same price as henseggs. But boiled eggs never hatch, and when itwas found that the number of birds was decreasing,the gathering of eggs was stopped by governmentofficers, and now there are plenty of young murres. HOW SEA-BIRDS KEEP HOUSE. 161 But sea-gulls abound on the Farallones, as wellas murres, and the gulls refuse to obey the lawnot to steal eggs. If the mother murre leaves heregg even for a minute, a gull pounces down and. BABY GULL IN NEST. seizes it in his beak. The gull knows how tobreak an egg as well as yo
. Shells and sea-life. THE FARALLOXE MULi:. sold in the markets at about the same price as henseggs. But boiled eggs never hatch, and when itwas found that the number of birds was decreasing,the gathering of eggs was stopped by governmentofficers, and now there are plenty of young murres. HOW SEA-BIRDS KEEP HOUSE. 161 But sea-gulls abound on the Farallones, as wellas murres, and the gulls refuse to obey the lawnot to steal eggs. If the mother murre leaves heregg even for a minute, a gull pounces down and. BABY GULL IN NEST. seizes it in his beak. The gull knows how tobreak an egg as well as you do; so he flies up alittle way and drops the egg on a stone. The VOL. 8—n 162 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. thick shell breaks, and at once Mr. Gull swoops down and be-gins to eat the richcontents. The murres crowdtogether in their rook-eries, as their house-keeping grounds arecalled, and should agun be fired, a greatcloud of birds willrise up from the rock,leaving their eggsscarcely a foot apartFigure 85. , upon its bare surface. The gulls build a slight nest, in which they layseveral eggs, and so do the cormorants, those tallsea-birds which are so swift of wing. Mr. Taylor,who has studied the birds so much, tells us thatthe young cormorants have neither feathers nordown, but their skins look like black leather. The Puffins also live on the islands. They arequeer-looking birds, and have been compared toparrots. They have a sharp, hatchet-shapedbeak, and funny white eyes. They lay their eg
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