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WILD LIFE AT HOME. 



had established themselves as annual breeders in 

 the Shetlands, and felt sire that the individuals I 

 saAv had nests if the places where they deposit their 

 single egg can be called nests in the neighbour- 

 hood, and a few days later met a gentleman on a 

 steamer conveying us south who told me that he 

 had just taken fulmar petrels' eggs in the cliffs 

 facing the Mucklc Flngga lighthouse. 



MUCKLE FI.UGGA : THE MOST NOKTHEKN POINT OF THE KUITISH ISLANDS. 



