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the pinnacles: farne islands 



Basaltic columns split from the main island, the summits of which form islands in the air 



for nesting murres 



tered sea hurling themselves with terrific 

 force against the base, sending the spray 

 high in the air until it nearly reached the 

 narrow ledges covered with a myriad of 

 feathered inhabitants. 



The book concludes with an interesting 

 account of Mr Chapman's impressions 

 of English bird life, made on the occasion 

 of his visit to that country in the year 

 1907. Here he was especially interested 

 in the native birds of the British Isles, 

 the cuckoos, starlings, rooks, and the 

 nightingale, and, above all else, in the 

 great breeding colonies of murres, gan- 

 nets, puffins, auks, eider ducks, and gulls 



inhabiting the smaller islands along the 

 English coast, and which with camera 

 and pen he pictures and describes most 

 successfully. 



This story of winged life upon the 

 plains, the mountains, the lakes, and dis- 

 tant seas, mirrored faithfully with the 

 lens and the truthful pen of a discerning 

 naturalist, shows that, after all, truth is 

 stranger than fiction, and that it is not 

 necessary to distort and falsely color the 

 biography of the wild in order to interest 

 the human race in the ways and habits 

 of avian life. 



