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Pictures of Bird Life 



one egg and one young one. In many cases one or botli 

 of the parents remained standing on or about tlie nest 

 without displaying the shghtest fear or timidity. 



Puffins (Frafcrcii/a arclica). 



Most of the islands appear to be of the same formation, 

 sloping gradually at one end into the sea, and at tlie other 

 rising abruptly to the height of about forty feet. This 

 higher part is worn into fantastic pinnacles and jutting 

 crags by tlie action of the wa^'es. In some parts there is 

 a depth of peaty soil covered with short turf, and some- 

 times with a luxuriant growth of bladder campion and 

 dock. 



This peaty soil is completely honeycombed by the 

 Puffins for their nesting-burrows ; whether these lioles, 

 which exactly resemble rabbit-holes, are made by tlie Puffins 



