27U WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. 



cauglit as tliey tumble clown tlie steep hillside 

 leading to tlie edge of the cliff, where they gain 

 wing and fly away out to sea. At the Bass, Tammy 

 Norie, as they are called, were by no means 

 numerous last summer, and hundreds of forsaken 



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NE3T OF BLACK-HEADED GULL. 



l)urrows, stuffed almost full of whid-drifted feathers, 

 gave the place tlie appearance of an old worked- 

 out mining district. 



A Puffin is a grotes(iue-looking bird at any linu^ 

 during the breeding season, ])ut to watch tliree or 

 four standing on a piece of tind)er Ijobbing u]) 

 and down in a fairly rough sea is an extremely 

 comical siii'ht. 



