THE PIGEON GUILLEMOT. 



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power; but a large company of these birds can produce a mild chorus, which 

 takes its place among those primal sea sounds which haunt the sympathetic 

 soul forever after. It blends curiously with the voices of "the dry, pied 

 things which be in the hueless mosses under the sea," anfl which are set 

 a-murmuring when the tide runs out. 



These Guillemots are not ungraceful while at rest, and it goes without 





Taken on tie IViUiamson Rocks. 



•WHEN THE TIDE RUNS OUT.'' 



Photo by the Author. 



saying that they exhibit the perfection of motion in the water; but on land 

 they move about with an awkward shuffling gait, and in their shorter flights 

 about the rocks, they thrust r)ut their great red feet cornerwise. and almost 

 excite derision for their awkwardness. 



They are. in the main, peaceable folk, and in these larger colonies are 

 gregarious to such an extent that one can rarely distinguish paired birds. 



