The Sea-birds’ Nursery 
the white forms of the birds hurl them- 
selves into the sea with tremendous force, 
making the salt water spurt upwards ; 
while the terrified fish, attacked from 
above by such deadly enemies as these, 
and from below by the no less deadly 
cormorants, guillemots, puffins, and also 
by their scaly devourers the dog-fish and 
- other foes, hardly know which way to 
turn or where to go for safety. 
These gannets have their own special 
breeding-rocks, where thousands of 
white forms up and down the perpendi- 
cular heights give the rocks an appear- 
ance of snow. They make, wherever 
they can find room, a bulky nest some- 
thing like a cormorant’s, equally rough 
and equally smelly, but only lay one egg. 
The young bird, when it makes its 
appearance, soon becomes tremendously 
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