BIRD NESTING. 



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in the strongest words the slaughter of these charming birds, 

 and the leaving the young to die by slow starvation in the nests. 



GUILLEMOTS ON THE NEEDLE ROCK, LUNDY ISLAND. 



The Kittiwake is readily distinguished from the other gulls by the 

 absence of the hind toe. 



The Guillemot, in spite of its being a plain, uninteresting-looking 



