BUFFON'S OR LONGTAILED-SKUA 229 



August, in Greenland, the young were sitting about on boulders and 

 clods, still carefully guarded by their parents. But at the end of the 

 month the young were able to take care of themselves, the old birds 

 ceased to feed them, and almost immediately afterwards they left the 

 country, apparently young and old leaving together in small flocks of 

 not more than fifteen or twenty birds. 



