may often happen that two of them exchange places, and when 

 there are as many as twenty birds sitting on the same shelf, it is 

 not always possible for each individual bird to continue to sit upon 

 its own egg. A certain degree of fellowship also prevails between 

 neighbours from the fact that the male bird does not feel himself 

 strictly bound to the one female alone. 



Of the numerous bird rocks, I will only in a few words, touch 

 on a single one, which in several respects is extremely remarkable ; 





YOUNG PUFFIN. 



this is Svaerholtklubben, situated on a projecting point a littfle to 

 the east of North Cape. The fact is that it is probably the 

 biggest in Norway, perhaps in the whole world. 



Svaerholtklubben is inhabited almost exclusively by a single 

 species, a little gull, namely the Kittiwake (or Three-toed Gull, 

 Rissa tridactyla). When the tourist- or mail-steamer, full of 



