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of the wings, then floats on for about ten or twenty 

 yards, then flaps again. Its flight is as noiseless as that 

 of the Owl, and exceedingly graceful. 



It was the second week of July that I visited the 

 Fulmars, and most of the eggs had hatched, which was 



FULMAR PETREL TURNING OR " BANKING " AGAINST THE WIND. 

 {Photographed by O. G. Pike.) 



unfortunate so far as photographing the birds was 

 concerned, for while the Fulmar has an egg in the nest 

 she is easy to approach — that is if you can traverse the 

 slippery and difficult cliffs — but as soon as the yoimg 

 leaves the shell, the mother-bird will fly off long before 

 you are near enough to expose a plat^e. This seemed 



