BIRDS 



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YOUNG GULL OX CHIM.VEV. 



It is great fun to stalk puffins at rest on a 

 rock, some lying down sunning themselves in con- 

 tented repose, and others looking inquisitively at 

 the photographer and his apparatus. I have some- 

 times stood a little distance away and watched my 

 brother creep up quietly inch by inch to a group 

 similar to that opposite, and laughed outright at 

 the foolishly comical figures the wondering birds cut 

 with their grotesque beaks. 



Whilst working the Shetlands during our holi- 

 days last summer, we visited the famous Xoup of 



