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happily separated in time to safe his life. He often quarrels with 

 a small terrier and is always the Yictor. His hearing is acute, and he is 

 as good as a watch dog, for he knows the usual frequenters of the house, 

 but when strangers come he sets up a discordant noise. 



Loss OF A NESTING PLACE FOR GuiLLEMOTS. — The high cliffs near 

 S. Margaret's have been since the memory of man, a favorite breeding 

 place for the Guillemots. Their chief place of resort was a large shelf 

 overhung by a very formidable looking projection of the cliii, familiarly 

 known in the neighbourhood as the Guillemots' House. This, in 

 1890, gave way and carried the shelf with it, thus depriving the birds of 

 a home. Early in July I was walking along the cliffs at the top, when 

 my attention was attracted to the sea by the unusual clamour of the 

 guillemots, and on looking over I saw two immense flocks of these birds, 

 numbering I daresay nearly a thousand in all. This unexpected sight, 

 I found upon enquiries, had been perceivable for some time, owing to the 

 loss of their usual breeding ground, as great numbers had come to the 

 locality, but owing to the cause above named could not find footing upon 

 the clifi, where scarcely a shelf of any size remained. — G. G. 



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