. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. EIDER ISLAND. It was near the close of the breeding-season. Thenests were still occupied by the mother-birds, but manyof the young had burst the shell, and were nestlingunder the wing, or taking their first lessons in thewat*^r-pools. Some, more advanced, were already in theice-sheltered channels, greedily waiting for the shell-fishand sea-urchins, which the old bird busied herself inprocuring for them. THE CORMORANT GULL. 319 Near by was a low and isolated rock-ledge, which wecalled Hans Isla
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. EIDER ISLAND. It was near the close of the breeding-season. Thenests were still occupied by the mother-birds, but manyof the young had burst the shell, and were nestlingunder the wing, or taking their first lessons in thewat*^r-pools. Some, more advanced, were already in theice-sheltered channels, greedily waiting for the shell-fishand sea-urchins, which the old bird busied herself inprocuring for them. THE CORMORANT GULL. 319 Near by was a low and isolated rock-ledge, which wecalled Hans Island. The glaucous gulls, those cormo-rants of the Arctic seas, had made it their peculiarhomestead. Their progeny, already full-fledged andvoracious, crowded the guano-whitened rocks; and the
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