KITTIWAKES AND A GANNET, NORTH BIRD ROCK 
STRONG WINGS MAKE THEM MASTERS OF THE ELEMENTS'’ 
PREFACE 
T he above picture may serve to siig'gest the feelings 
which have animated me in securing the contents 
of this volume, of enthusiastic love of the out-door 
world and keen delight in its free, wild life, — a spirit which 
I hope may not have been too fugitive to bear the transfer 
from nature to the printed page. It is a scene instinct with life. 
Forth from the wave-lashed cliff and out over the heaving, 
restless deep fly the wild, hardy birds of the sea. As they 
launch into the cold breeze which sweeps over the lonely 
northern ocean and wheel off before it with careless abandon. 
