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Scotland, and also on the Farn Isles, on 
the coast of Northumberland, which 
latter is the only place where they 
are known to breed in England, and may 
be said to be their utmost southern limit 
in this quarter, although a few solitary 
instances of single birds being shot further 
southward along the coast have sometimes 
happened. 
The following is the account given of 
these birds by a well known and intelligent 
naturalist, a native of this City, (Norwich) 
as observed by him in Iceland. " On 
our landing on the rocky island (Akaroe) 
we found the Eider fowls sitting upon their 
nests, which were rudely formed of their 
own down, generally among the old and 
half decayed sea-weed, that the storms 
had cast high up on the beach, but some- 
times only among the bare rocks. It was 
difficult to make these birds leave their 
nests, and so little inclined were many of 
them to do it, that they even permitted us 
to handle them whilst they were sitting, 
without their appearing to be at all alarm- 
ed. 
