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Fig. 5. Bird Rocks at Vardo. 



auks, gulls and various other kinds of water fowl breed in immense 

 numbers on the high, bold cliffs facing the ocean. Puffins (Mormon 

 fratercula) are also found here in myriads, inhabiting the bird-cliffs 

 or ' fugleberge,' and these preserves are protected by their owners, who 

 derive considerable profit from them. 



In another locality off Stavanger, we find the small island of Eott. 

 Here many birds breed, and in far more accessible locations, and often 

 on the sandy and rocky stretches near the ocean. Cormorants breed 

 here in numbers (Phalacrocorax graculus) ; at least two species of 

 gulls (Larus canus and Larus fuscus) — the common gull and the 



