142 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 
and vastness of the sea to the quiet and seclusion 
of the forest made the previous hour’s experience 
seem distant and unreal. The wind which had 
roared through our rigging now breathed peacefully 
through the tree tops; the heaving, frothy sea was 
replaced by stable earth, wondrously carpeted with 
snow-white cornel and dainty twin-flowers ;” instead 
of the harsh cries of the Gannets, we heard the Ave 
Maria of the White-throated Sparrow. Rarely have 
76. Cornel or bunchberry. 
the woods seemed so beautiful. Approaching the 
eastern cliffs, the trees became dwarfed and singu- 
larly malformed by the winds. Finally they disap- 
peared altogether, and were succeeded by fields blue 
with iris. Never have I seen this plant so abundant. 
There were acres of flowers reaching to the very 
edge of the cliffs, where, with only a change in the 
tint, the blue of the iris faded into the blue of 
the sea. 
