Some who read these pages may, perchance, be stimu- 
lated by a desire to enlarge their acquaintance with our sea- 
birds by spending a day at sea in a small row-boat. For 
choice, one of the larger breeding-stations should be visited. 
Horn Head, Donegal; St. Kilda, the Scilly Islands, the 
Bempton cliffs, Yorkshire ; the Farne Islands, Fowlsheugh, 
Stonehaven ; the Orkneys, the Shetlands, or the Hebrides, 
are all renowned resorts. Here are thrilling sights indeed. 
Guillemots, razor-bills, and puffins are congregated in swarms, 
which must be seen to be believed. Few birds are more 
easy to tell at sight as they scuttle past one on the way down 
to the water from the cliffs, or returning laden with food for 
their young. The puffin is easily the most conspicuous, 
since he flies with his little yellow legs stuck out on each side 
of his apology for a tail. And for a further token there is 
his great red and yellow beak. The guillemot has a sooty- 
brown head and neck—in his breeding dress—slate-grey 
back and white under parts, and a pointed beak; while 
the razor-bill, similarly coloured, is to be distinguished by the 
narrow white lines down his highly compressed beak. By 
good fortune, the white-winged black guillemot may be 
found among the host. His white wings contrasting with 
the black plumage of the rest of the body, and his red legs, 
suffice to identify him. 
On the Farne Islands, as well as on the Orkneys and 
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