more open fjords towards their home, all crammed with food. 

 This consists partly of fry of fish and their ova, especially of the 

 Coal-fish, and partly of small crustaceans, which the sea-currents 

 drive backwards and forwards, in enormous masses, both close 

 to shore and out at sea. Among these are the little copepod 

 Calanus finmarchicus, transparent as water ; this food they share 

 with the Rudolphi's Rorqual (or " Coal-fish Whale," Balanopteva 

 borealis), a species of whale of medium size, of which in some 

 seasons (as in 1885), nearly 800 head are captured on the coast of 

 Norway. Another crustacean occurring in large quantities, is 

 the "Kril" (Euphausia inermis), a small species of Thysanopod, 

 half-an-inch long, which also forms the chief food of the Blue 

 Whale (Balanoptera sibbaldii), the largest of all now living (or 

 probably of formerly existing) creatures, when this sea giant 

 stands in under the Norwegian coast in the summer months. 

 And the Blue Whale in turn must yield its life to the explosive 

 harpoon-shell, whilst it lies on the surface of the water and 

 gorges on these small crustaceans, which form its only food during 

 its sojourn with us, and of which even up to ten barrels* have 

 been found in the capacious stomach of some of the examples 

 that have been captured. 



The Kittiwake builds its nest upon the narrow shelves on the 

 steep cliff wall, where they hang like swallows' nests out over 

 the breakers. In the course of years they become constantly 

 larger, since they are extended and added to each year, so that 

 at last they may reach a height of several feet. They are a 

 tangled mass of straw (bents) and sea-weed, copiously saturated 

 by the droppings of the birds and their young ; sometimes they 

 are situated so low down, that the spray of the surf reaches them, 

 but such things affect neither the young nor the sitting birds. 



In the winter the mountain remains deserted. The birds t 

 which are often seen in whole clouds at sea, or under the land, 

 engaged in fishing, never then sit on the Klubbe. In March they 

 suddenly return, and occupy it all at once; at the end ot August, 

 when all the young have taken to the water, they once more 

 leave it. 



* A Norwegian Ttynde (= barrel) holds about 30 gallons (= 3.83 bushels). 

 Transl. 



