THE PIGEON GUILLEMOT. 925 
power; but a large company of these birds can produce a mild chorus, which 
takes its place among those primal sea sounds which haunt the sympathetic 
soul forever after. It blends curiously with the voices of “the dry, pied 
things which be in the hueless mosses under the sea,’ and which are set 
a-murmuring when the tide runs out. 
These Guillemots are not ungraceful while at rest, and it goes without 
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Taken on the Williamson Rocks. Photo by the Author. 
“WHEN THE TIDE RUNS OUT.” 
saying that they exhibit the perfection of motion in the water; but on land 
they move about with an awkward shuffling gait, and in their shorter flights 
about the rocks, they thrust out their great red feet cornerwise, and almost 
excite derision for their awkwardness. 
They are, in the main, peaceable folk, and in these larger colonies are 
gregarious to such an extent that one can rarely distinguish paired birds. 
