The Sea-birds’ Nursery 
fat, and covered with a thick coat of 
yellowish-white down. When the first 
feathers appear the birds are brown, 
spotted with white, and do not get the 
snow-white plumage of their parents for 
some years. They are largely used as 
food by the people who live in the rocky 
islands in the North Sea, and when 
pickled or salted or smoked are stored 
away for the winter, when no fishing 
eathbe carried on, while the: feathers 
are also used to keep them warm during 
the long, cold nights. 
The same use is made of the multitude 
of puffins which live together in such 
numbers, and these birds are caught ina 
very curious fashion. You do not often 
hear of people going fishing for birds. 
But the natives of St. Kilda, who depend 
upon the sea-fowl for their living, catch 
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