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15IRI) STUDIKS WITH A CAMKKA 



Two days later I went to Peiiike.se, and my domi- 

 nant thonglit on recalling tlie experience is an in- 

 tense desire to repeat it. Penikcse, or at least its 

 nortliern part, is an island of Terns. (_)ii the rocky 

 beach, from which the sides of the bank lead to the 



iir.. '1\tu on iipliiiMl ijfst. 



rolling upland al)ove. whichever way 1 looked was 

 a Tei'n's nest with its two, or, rarely, three eggs. 

 Less frequently yonng Terns were seen, varying in 

 age from thos(! jnst emerging from the shell to 

 otljei's almost ready to lly, while overhead was a 



