BIRDS. 



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brother was working his fast shutter at a speed 

 equal to one-six-hundredth part of a second, and 

 that in the photograph of the watcher's cap falling 

 off his head after being struck, the bird had 

 managed to get out of the plate altogether, with 

 the exception of the tip of one wing. 



The number of pairs of birds now breeding on 

 Henna Xess is double 

 what it was in the late 

 Dr. Saxby's time. 



Mr. Edmondston in- 

 formed me that occasion- 

 ally, when a nest gets tilled 

 with water during heavy 

 rain, the birds remove their 

 eggs to new and drier 

 quarters. I noticed several 

 mock - nests about near 

 those containing eggs. 



When visiting the great 

 skuas on Herma Ness, a KY SKUA. 



grand view may be ob- 

 tained of the Muckle Flugga rock, which marks the 

 most northern point of the British Islands, and 

 rather befittingly forms the tailpiece to this chapter. 

 Whilst the photograph of it was being taken, I 

 was delighted to see a few fulmar petrels flying 

 round the cliffs. They are easily distinguished from 

 the gulls when on the wing by their peculiar gliding 

 graceful flight. I Avas already aware that a number 



