FARNE ISLANDS AND THEIR BIRDS 211 



from the Fame-light is thrown far out over the 

 spray-covered water, and now and again a white- 

 winged sea-bird passes across the light and is lost 

 again directly, and in this way the short night passes, 

 the call or shrill cry of a bird being sometimes heard 

 above the beating of the waves against the rock- 

 bound shore. And long before the first beams of 

 daylight appear, the solitary lark rises to open with 

 his song of love, another day of busy life on these 

 famous islands of the wild North Sea. 



