. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Vol. liv.] 62 We spent Saturday, August 12, on Hermaness, and inspected this famous breeding ground of the Great Skua. The ground rises up a long slope of a mile or more in length to the top of Hermaness Hill, after which it drops a little, and then, in a similar way to Noss, falls sheer into the sea. Standing Fig. 3. 5axa VoRD N6R WICk HA-ROLtS »tCK. BAUTA ISLAND Saltasooimd VILLA66 here one sees below one several masses of rock rising out of the sea, and on one of these, Muckle Flugga, there is a light- house. This is the northernmost part of t
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Vol. liv.] 62 We spent Saturday, August 12, on Hermaness, and inspected this famous breeding ground of the Great Skua. The ground rises up a long slope of a mile or more in length to the top of Hermaness Hill, after which it drops a little, and then, in a similar way to Noss, falls sheer into the sea. Standing Fig. 3. 5axa VoRD N6R WICk HA-ROLtS »tCK. BAUTA ISLAND Saltasooimd VILLA66 here one sees below one several masses of rock rising out of the sea, and on one of these, Muckle Flugga, there is a light- house. This is the northernmost part of the British Isles. The cUffs here, and to the west, were literally teeming with birds. There were five definite colonies of Garuiets {Sula bassana), countless Guillemots [Uria a. aalge), Kittiwakes. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Taylor, Nancy M. Oxford : Clarendon Press
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