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WILD SPORTS OF THE HIGHLANDS chap, xxvii 



way must successfully. They are neatly and powerfully made ; 

 their colour, a kind of sooty dull black, with very little gloss or 

 shining tints on their feathers. The boatswains seldom appear 

 here excepting during April and May. All the gull tribe 

 during their first year are of a dingy and mottled colour, very 

 unlike the neat and elegant combination of colours they after- 

 wards acquire. 



THE FINDHORN FROM ALTYRE WOODS, LOOKING NORTH 



