LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xxi 



HALF-TITLE, PART III Puffins and Razor-bills, one of the 



latter flapping 15 l 

 Gannets leaving North Bird Rock 153 

 Bird Rock. " The famous rock, with its beetling cliffs and whir- 

 ring multitude " 155 

 Gannets and Murre leaving nests 157 

 Gannets and Murres incubating 159 

 Gannet returning home 161 

 Puffins leaving the rock 163 

 Kittiwakes on their nests 165 

 Party of Razor-bills, one showing peculiar straddling attitude in 



flight 1 66 



Gannets nesting on the top of North Bird Rock 167 



Briinnich's Murre by its egg. " Shrank back bashfully" 169 



Pair of Herring Gulls. "Allowed me to approach " 171 



Black Guillemots and their haunts 175 

 Black Guillemots. " Curiosity seems to be one of their most 



striking characteristics " 178 



Black Guillemot over her eggs 180 



Herring Gull leaving the dead tree 182 



Leach's Petrel removed from its burrow 186 



Greater Shearwater and Wilson's Petrels 187 



Wilson's Petrels 191 



"A Sooty Shearwater or two joined the party " 192 



Greater Shearwater. " They came fairly near " 193 

 Greater and Sooty Shearwaters. "It was a school of bait they 



were chasing " 195 



Pomarine Jaeger. " Great powerful Jaegers were passing " 197 



