THE BIRDS OF BEMPTOX CLIFFS. 



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a .species of louse, as far as I know peculiar to himself, which, 

 to judge by its bite when it gets a taste of human blood, 

 must cause the bird considerable annoyance. The Jackdaw 



Fig. 



-Puffin Newly Hatched 



and Herring Gull harry the eggs and young whenever these 

 are left uncovered by the parent birds. One would have 

 supposed that a bird so quarrelsome where its own species is 



Fig. i i. Young Puffin. 



concerned would have made some attempt to fight off a foe 

 whose purpose was to destroy its offspring, but the Guillemot 

 looks on with apparent indifference whilst these birds suck 

 its eggs or rip open its defenceless young. The Herring 



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