The Sea-birds’ Nursery 
minutes dozens of them plunge down- 
wards into the sea, until it is quickly 
dotted with their forms. 
Their young ones don’t even have 
such a roughly made nursery as the 
young cormorants are provided with ; for 
these birds make no nest at all, but lay 
their large single eggs on the bare rock. 
And on this hard bed their young are 
brought up, being fed with small fish 
until they are big enough to go down 
to the sea themselves. 
The razor-bills, somewhat — similar 
birds, but with blacker plumage, and 
with white lines and marks on their 
powerful beaks, like to make use of a 
hollow or a hole among the rocks, but 
except for this slight shelter they are 
as much exposed to the weather as the 
guillemots. The razor-bill is the nearest 
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