20 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
Kittiwakes we found by far the commonest birds of 
Horns. They were nesting in colonies of many hundreds. 
A few had already hatched, and I picked up a little one 
dead. 
Next in number came, I thought, herring gulls and 
razor-bills, though puffins ran these close. We counted 
five nests of the common cormorant, and three of the shag 
—and these had young, but the others only eggs. 
Horné was a very good place for observing birds. We 
came toa corner and peeped over, and there below us 
was such a round of nursery goings-on. For we took 
the cliff at an angle, so that the whole thing lay open 
like a book. 
In and out of the holes, not six feet from our faces, the 
consequential big-nosed puffins ran; while herring gulls 
and kittiwakes were there in plenty with guillemots 
(both black and Briinnich’s) and razor-bills sitting up on 
end. We were rather a careless party ; but could I have 
crept up there by myself, I should have had a fine time 
indeed. Nothing would have seen me except a soaring 
gull straight overhead, for I would have lain as flat as a 
puff-adder, my very nose hidden; only just two eyes 
spying through a tuft of grass. 
Upon Horné also I saw three pairs of white wag- 
tails, an odd raven, the meadow, rock, and red-throated 
pipits, and the snow-bunting. Very handsome the cock 
snow-buntings looked in their black-and-white dress, and 
they were singing sweetly. The island held several 
