LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xxi 
Half-Title, Part III — Puffins and Razor-bills, one of the 
latter flapping 151 
Gannets leaving North Bird Rock 153 
Bird Rock. “ The famous rock, with its beetling cliffs and whir¬ 
ring multitude ” 155 
Gannets and Murre leaving nests 157 
Gannets and Murres incubating 159 
Gannet returning home 161 
Puffins leaving the rock 163 
Kittiwakes on their nests 165 
Party of Razor-bills, one showing peculiar straddling attitude in 
flight 166 
Gannets nesting on the top of North Bird Rock 167 
Briinnich’s Murre by its egg. “ Shrank back bashfully” 169 
Pair of Herring Gulls. “ Allowed me to approach ” 17 i 
Black Guillemots and their haunts 175 
Black Guillemots. “Curiosity seems to be one of their most 
striking characteristics ” 178 
Black Guillemot over her eggs 180 
Herring Gull leaving the dead tree 182 
Leach’s Petrel removed from its burrow 186 
Greater Shearwater and Wilson’s Petrels 187 
Wilson’s Petrels 191 
“A Sooty Shearwater or two joined the party ” 192 
Greater Shearwater. “ They came fairly near ” 193 
Greater and Sooty Shearwaters. “It was a school of bait they 
were chasing ” 195 
Pomarine Jaeger. “ Great powerful Jaegers were passing ” 197 
