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Updated: May 23, 2025
You don't seem to care about shooting guillemots, Lavender." "Well, you see, potting a bird that is sitting on the water " said Lavender with a shrug. "Oh, it isn't as easy as you might imagine.
Before reaching the cases in which the interesting sub-families of the Gulls are exhibited the visitor should remark the varieties of the Grebes in case 152; the two following cases devoted to the Auks from the arctic regions; and the true Auks of Britain; the varieties of the Penguins, or marine parrots; and the Guillemots.
She rose up to allow them to pass and they went on like mechanical things wound up and released, forming line again and seeming to forget her. She remembered the guillemots and their rudeness and the way they had stormed and jeered at the boat did all that mean more than the politeness and friendliness of the penguins?
"Sure to have a spare one," answered he, "but it gets me, that's Chinee all over, they're rattled." "Look!" she cried, "we're moving!" The cliff's were beginning to glide landward and the bay's mouth to widen, sea-gulls flew with them screaming a challenge, and the guillemots lining the cliff ledges broke into voice, echoes and guillemots storming at them as they went.
Above the promontories millions of auks again made black clouds against the sky, eider ducks floated on the molten waters of sheltering fjords, along the icy shores puffins, with white swelling breasts, sat in military line, guillemots cooed their spring love songs and fulmar gulls uttered amorous calls, on the green slopes the white hare of the arctic gambolled, and tiny bears, soft and silken flossed, played at the entrances of moss-ensconced caves.
Curlews call to each other from island to island, and high answering calls come from the sea-saturated fields of the mainland. Small broad billed guillemots and puffins float at ease upon the water, swelling with obvious pride as they display the flocks of little ones which swim with infantile solemnity around them. Gulls cluster and splash noisily over shoals of fry.
It was calm and blue to-day, and no sound disturbed the quiet save the incessant shriek and scream of the rock birds, the kittiwakes, black-headed gulls, and guillemots that live on the sides of these high sheer craigs.
Guillemots and Razorbills return at intervals to the breeding stations early in the season, and these visits are repeated with growing frequency until the birds are finally established.
Far away the orange ray of a lighthouse began to quiver in the lambent dusk. The pale green light on the waves did not die out, but the shadows grew darker, so that Eyre, with his gun close at hand, could not make out his groups of guillemots, although he heard them calling all around. They had come out too late, indeed, for any such purpose.
One was established in Porto Rico, and several others among the islands of Alaska, on whose rocky cliffs may be seen to-day clouds of Puffins, Auks, and Guillemots queer creatures that stand upright like a man crowding and shouldering each other about on the ledges which overlook the dark waters of Bering Sea.
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