she was not above half stripped. In Hooker's Tour to Ice- 

 land, he says their nests were generally " among the old and 

 half decayed sea-weed that the storms had cast high upon the 

 beach, but sometimes only upon the bare rocks. It was diffi- 

 cult to make these birds leave their nests, and so little inclined 

 were some of them to do it, that they even permitted us to 

 handle them whilst they were sitting, without their appearing 

 to be at all alarmed. Almost every little hollow place be- 

 tween the rocks is occupied with the nests of these birds, 

 which are so numerous that we were obliged to walk with 

 the greatest caution, to avoid trampling upon them ; but be- 

 sides this, the Stiftsamptman has a number of holes cut in 

 the smooth and sloping side of a hill, in two rows, and in 

 every one of these also there is a nest." 

 For the egg, see Plate 15. 



