. The birds of Iona & Mull . ^^i^^M^^. Certainly, the land was liberally coveredwith a layer of seaweed, which is extensively, almost exclusively, 1 A habit common enough along the big rivers of the East of Scotland, butrarer in the West.—Ed. K 134 THE BIRDS OF ION A AND MULL. used as manure here, so that the misguided birds might nothave been aware that they were committing a trespass, supposingthey were still within the sacred bounds of below high watermark, the property of great and small, that rich estate formed byWaders of high and low degree. All the Wading birds take boldly to the water

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. The birds of Iona & Mull . ^^i^^M^^. Certainly, the land was liberally coveredwith a layer of seaweed, which is extensively, almost exclusively, 1 A habit common enough along the big rivers of the East of Scotland, butrarer in the West.—Ed. K 134 THE BIRDS OF ION A AND MULL. used as manure here, so that the misguided birds might nothave been aware that they were committing a trespass, supposingthey were still within the sacred bounds of below high watermark, the property of great and small, that rich estate formed byWaders of high and low degree. All the Wading birds take boldly to the water when woundedand their retreat is cut off by land, but none so readily as theOyster-catcher. An Oyster-catcher—as if you had to run after an oyster tocatch it! What an excitinsr race ! XX. The Cormorants, Here commonly called the Scart, which, like much of the LowCountry Scotch dialect, is a corruption of the Gaelic wordScarbh. It is abundantly distributed along our shores and over thesurface of our seas. Both the Great Black Corm

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