BIRDS. 



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it is satisfactory to know that care and 

 bestowed upon them are generally rewarded. 



The Fame Islands, off the coast of Northumber- 

 land, form by far the best all-round sea-bird station 

 in England. Permission to visit them is easily 



TEKNS ON THE WINO. 



obtained from Mr. H. A. Paynter, of Alnwick; 

 boats are generally procurable at Sea Houses, and 

 the watchers on them are most courteous and 

 obliging fellows. The following birds and their nests 

 eggs, and young may be photographed there : 

 Cormorants, lesser black-backed gulls, herring-gulls, 

 kittiwakes, guillemots, puffins, eider-ducks, oyster- 



