. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . Cormorants { carbo). which liad approached too near, striking at it repeatedly,and following it resolntely for a considerable distance. Oneof the watchers had been strnck on the head the previousday by one of tlieni. Xear to the Tern colony were two nests of one the duck was sitting hard, and our photographicoperations did not disturb her. There is no bird whichsits closer than the Eider. This one allowed us to strokeher on the nest. The other nest only lield tln-ee eggs anda small quantity of the famous
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . Cormorants { carbo). which liad approached too near, striking at it repeatedly,and following it resolntely for a considerable distance. Oneof the watchers had been strnck on the head the previousday by one of tlieni. Xear to the Tern colony were two nests of one the duck was sitting hard, and our photographicoperations did not disturb her. There is no bird whichsits closer than the Eider. This one allowed us to strokeher on the nest. The other nest only lield tln-ee eggs anda small quantity of the famous down, which is not de-posited in any (piantity until the full clutch of eggs islaid. The nests are sometimes on the bare rocks, often •202 Pictures of Bird Life among tlie campion, where they are perfectly hidden, andat tlie foot of tlie ruined buildings or inside the rooHesswalls. On the rocks at the waters edge was a Hock of about thirty Eiders. mostly Cormorant {Phalacyocorax caii/o). but anions them were afew one ofthese was inthe beautifidmale plumage—the othershad begun toassume theduck plumage,and were in••eclipsedress, a veryinterestingsight. Farther on was a small flock of five or six Oyster-catchers, utteringtheir somewhat plainti\-e pipe as they searched the seaweed-covered rocks, unco\-ered by the falling tide. Close toan old wreck, cast up high and dry by the fierce galesof winter, was a nest belonging to some of them. This The Sea=birds of the Fame Islands 203 was better made tluiii is usual with these birds, l)eins:a fairly substantial struetiue of stalks, in which were threeeggs and two rab])it bones by way of ornament. On a patch of wet sand, reflecting the coloiu-s of skyand clouds, and on which the long billowy swell l)rokelazily in little ripples, a large flock of Terns had settled,while others soared and hovered abo\e them, their white
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