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weed. When we land on the Wideopens it is a 

 repetition of the scene on the Noxes, except that 

 on this island there are a few puffins and lesser 

 black-backed gulls. There was one greater black- 



OYSTER-CATCHER'S NEST 



backed gull. This bird had a broken wing, and 

 not being able to fly it roamed about, and made 

 sad havoc among the terns' eggs, which, with the 

 young terns, were its only food. I think it success- 

 fully eluded the keepers the whole season. A 



