The Sea-birds’ Nursery 
short time she would not only have to 
catch her own meals, but would have to 
help in providing for three hungry young 
ones as well. 
The young of these birds, as long as 
the weather is fine and warm, do not feel 
the want of a snug nest. But when the 
weather is bad, and cold winds and 
driving rain beat down on to the un- 
sheltered beach, they suffer very much. 
One morning after a fierce gale and 
heavy rain I found hundreds of young 
terns dead in their nests, having been 
killed by the cold and wet, in spite 
of the protection afforded by the old 
birds brooding over them, and doing 
their best to keep them warm. 
The young kittiwakes sometimes 
begin the world on the face of a preci-° 
pice which rises from the sea, and only 
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