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on wing and over eye — is an Arctic species, seen 

 here only during the tempests of winter. 



GUILLEMOT. 



The Black Guillemot, or Sea Pigeon, makes 

 the red cliffs of our northern shore its nesting 

 place in summer. The birds deposit their two 

 dull -greenish eggs in the naked rlefts of the sand- 

 stone rocks. On quiet summer days they love to 

 sit upright in rows on the inaccessible rock ledges, 

 looking grotesquely like so many black bottles 

 ranged on a shelf, or float in dark groups on 

 the glassy billows below. As we wander over 

 the soft green sward that crowns these lofty 

 battlements of the dee[), and watch the heaving 

 blue, and »l),i<ik -in^ the fresh wanderinuf breeze 

 and the great •" .jay.' '-c^f , the su-nmer'o sky, the 

 plaintive Nvhistlji.lg; of- these [';^:ntle birds, coming 

 up with the vcfoaii (5f thf,\*deeif, f'jrms a wild note 



in nature's music not soon to be forgotten. 



NoTK. — The English, or House Sparrow, was first seen in I'. K. Island, 

 in Charlottetown, November 26lh, 1886. Since then it has multiplied rapidly 

 in the city. F''oragiiis^ in the streets and yards in vvinter, nesting in inacces- 

 ihle nooks of the tallest houses in summer, and making excursi(jns in autumn 

 to feast in suburban graiii-lields, it seems perfectly at home and well estab- 

 lished here. 



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