. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Ornithology; Ornithology; Game and game-birds; Game and game-birds; Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithologie; Ornithologie; Gibier; Gibier; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques. f- MURRE. 399. 3 construct favorite cliffs, is another singular and common inhabitant of the high northern latitudes of both continents. In Europe these birds extend their swarming colonies as far as the ever wintry coast of Spitzbergen ; they are also seen in Lapmarck, and along the White and Icy Sea as far as Kamtschatka. Along the whole co
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Ornithology; Ornithology; Game and game-birds; Game and game-birds; Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithologie; Ornithologie; Gibier; Gibier; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques. f- MURRE. 399. 3 construct favorite cliffs, is another singular and common inhabitant of the high northern latitudes of both continents. In Europe these birds extend their swarming colonies as far as the ever wintry coast of Spitzbergen ; they are also seen in Lapmarck, and along the White and Icy Sea as far as Kamtschatka. Along the whole coast of Hudson Bay, Labrador, and Newfoundland, they congregate in swarms. They also breed in the Orkneys and in more temperate climates, when the local situation hap- pens to suit their particular habits and instinct; thus, they are extremely numerous in the desert Isle of Priestholm, contiguous to the Island of Anglesey, on the Godreve rocks, not far from St. Ives, in Cornwall, the Fame Isles, off the coast of Northum- berland, and the cliffs of the Isle of Wight, and of Scarborough in Yorkshire. Occasionally the young are seen along the coasts of the United States; but the great body of the species in America, according to Audubon, winter in the Bay of Fundy, where they find an open sea, congenial rocks, and a cool temperature. These birds begin to assemble on their customary cliffs in England early in May, and crowd together in such numbers that it is not uncommon to see hundreds sitting upon their eggs on the ledge of a rock, all in a line, and nearly touching each other. They lay but a single egg, on the flat and bare rock, without any precaution to protect it or the progeny arising from it by any shelter or convenience at all like a nest. It is of a palish green, blotched and marked with black and deep umber brown. They rarely quit their eggs unless disturbed, and are fed during the time, chiefly with small fish or other marine productions, by the male. In inaccessible pl
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