3IO 



BIRDS, BEASTS, AND FISHES 



restless sea, ere they return over the grey plains whence 

 they came. 



And the mere sleeps tranquilly again; and the farmers 

 around have lost a firm friend in that restless, graceful, 

 embodied spirit of the sea — the brown-headed gull. 



NEST AND EGGS OF THE BROWN-HEADED GULL. {/fl sitll. 



