The Sea-birds’ Nursery 
enough fish to support it, and at the 
same time it has not lost the power of 
being able to fly up to the heights 
of the precipitous rocks all round the 
coast, where it is not by any means 
am easy matter fo. get at it, or its 
egg. 
But diving and pursuing fish under 
water is not the only method of catching 
them used by birds. The gannets or 
solan-geese fly overhead, soaring high 
up in the blue sky, constantly looking 
out with their keen eyes, and watching 
the waves below for the signs of a shoal 
of herrings or other similar fish. Then 
they fold their long white wings and 
plunge downwards head-first, like arrows; 
down, down through the waves they 
drive, until the fish is transfixed by the 
sharp-pointed beak. Again and again 
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