. Wild birds and their haunts (a book for students and sportsmen) . ins are mereballs of black down. It also breeds on the North andSouth Wamses. The puffin is also known by the nameof parrot, on account of its parrot-like beak, and also asTammy-norie. In many parts of the world, notably and Iceland, puffins are eaten in great numbers bythe inhabitants. The Guillemot {Una troile), also called scoot, depositsits one egg, which varies immensely in colour, markings,and size, on the bare rock, and on the Fames is almostentirely confined to the Pinnacles—four flat-topped rocks,each some tw
. Wild birds and their haunts (a book for students and sportsmen) . ins are mereballs of black down. It also breeds on the North andSouth Wamses. The puffin is also known by the nameof parrot, on account of its parrot-like beak, and also asTammy-norie. In many parts of the world, notably and Iceland, puffins are eaten in great numbers bythe inhabitants. The Guillemot {Una troile), also called scoot, depositsits one egg, which varies immensely in colour, markings,and size, on the bare rock, and on the Fames is almostentirely confined to the Pinnacles—four flat-topped rocks,each some twenty to thirty feet square, separated by achasm about twenty feet wide from the Staples. The topsof the Pinnacles during the breeding season are literallycovered with about as many guillemots as can find stand-ing room, each bird brooding its single egg. A fewrazorbills also occur, along with guillemots. ThePinnacles are amongst the best places in Great Biitainor Ireland for studying the habits of the guillemots atshort range (, about twenty feet) Among the Sea Birds 37 AMONG THE SEA FARNE ISLANDS IN JUNE. TO this interesting group of rock-bound islandsI wended my way to study bird-life. Thereare in all twenty-two at low water, and fifteenwhen the tide is at flood, for then the lower islets aresubmerged. They are composed of basalt, and this is really theextremity of the stratum which runs practically throughthe county of Northumberland, and thence marine stratum may be traced from St. Cuth-berts small isle, in close proximity to Holy Island,or Lmdisfarne, as was its ancient name. It thenforms what is called the Heugh at the Holy Island—a rampart some five hundred yards long. It is thensubmerged, and reappears in the Fort of Beblowe —in old writings—or Holy Island Castle. It goes againunder the sea practically for six sea miles, until it cul-minates in the famous bird-breeding haunt, Fame Is-lands. Of all the feathered resorts, thi
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