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WITH XATVRE AND A CAMERA. 



We visited tlie far-famed Pinnacles again, and 

 found them crowded as thickly as ever witli 

 Guillemots, many of wliicli evidently had young- 

 ones, for they were edging their Avay into the 

 seething noisy mass with sand-eels in their bills. 

 Below them were a number of Kittiwakes, and tlieir 

 downy young ones, all of which were panting and 



gaping from the oppres- 

 sive heat. 



Our pictures of the 

 Guillemots and Kitti- 

 wakes were both ob- 

 tained on the Saltee 

 Islands. 



A few land birds 

 occasionally breed upon 

 the islands. Some years 

 back a Linnet made its 

 nest in a small elder- 

 berry tree growing in 

 the Fame lighthouse- 

 keej^er's garden, and a 

 Blackl)ird amongst some 

 rhubarb stalks. A 

 member of the last 

 species also made its nest not long ago in a liendo(;k 

 plant growing on the Wide Opens. 



A number of Siielducks breed amongst the 

 sand dunes, l)etween Sea Houses and j^amborough 

 Castle on the mainland, aiul the fishermen look 

 upon them as tlu; most artful l)irds in existence. 

 As an instance of a Shelduck\s cunning, they assert 

 that when she leaves her nesting burrow she drags 

 hei- tail upon the ground, so as to ol)litei-ate her 

 footpi'ints ill the sand, and llius sav(^ her ni\st IVoiii 

 discovery and molestation. 



YOUNG BLACK GUILLEMOT, 



