70 GA]\rE PRESERVERS AND BIRD PRESERVERS. 



because they generally feed soon after daylight, 

 and then reth-e to the most lonely rocks to 

 spend the day.- 



We should greatly like to see some of the 

 gentlemen who write, ' Let them be shot if in- 

 conveniently numerous, but not in their breed- 

 ing season,' take a vow to drink no fermented 

 liquor and to taste no meat until they had shot 

 one after August 1. They would find the 

 pursuit of the Holy Grail quite as easy a quest. 

 If they happened to discover the mountain on 

 which they were it would be only to see them 

 take wing, probably at a distance of at least 300 

 yards, and they would most likely cross an arm 

 of the sea before they settled again. Once on 

 a 6th of August we saw a party of S^ve come 

 across the loch to us. They were all flying in 

 wide circles like a convoy of ships with sailing 

 orders to keep in sight of each other, occa- 

 sionally screaming to each other, every now and 

 then dipping down till they were near the tops 

 of the hills, then suddenly rising again high in 



