THE BIRDS OF BEMPTON CLIFFS. 



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•out their webbed feet and tail to give them support (as 

 their parents do when performing difficult evolutions in the 

 air), land on a grassy slope far below, quite uninjured. As 



Fig. 6. — Guillemots Newly Hatched. 



soon as they reach the breakers instinct asserts itself, and 

 they dive again and again with the most exuberant delight. 

 By the third week in August the ledges are all deserted, and 

 parents and young have gone out to sea. 



Fig. 



. — Young Guillemot with Sand-Eel. 



There is but little difference between the young of the 

 Guillemot and Razor-Bill when hatched, both have dirty 

 white underparts, and are grey-black above, but later the 

 Razor-Bill has a greyer head and neck, and its slightly 



