SEA PIGEON. 85

on wing and over eye—is an Arctic species, seen here only during the tempests of winter.

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The Black Guillemot, or Sea Pigeon, makes the red cliffs of our northern shore its nesting place in summer. The birds deposit their two dull-greenish eggs in the naked clefts of the sand— stone rocks. On quiet summer days they love to sit upright in rows on the inaccessible rock ledges, looking grotesquely like so many black bottles ranged on a shelf, or float in dark groups on the glassy billows l)elo\r. As we wander over the soft green sward that crowns these lofty battlements of the deep, and watch the heaving blue, and drink in the fresh wandering breeze and the great joy of the summer’s sky, the plaintive whistling of these gentle birds, coming up with the moan of the deep, forms a wild note in nature’s music not soon to be forgotten.

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NI) H; —The English or House Sparrow, w is first seen in 1’. F. Island in Charlottetown, November 26th, 1886. Since then it has multiplied rapidly in the city. Foraging m the streets and y \rds in winter, nesting in inacces- ible nooks of the tallest houses in summer, and making thllr>l0Hs in autumn to feast in suburban grain fields, it seems perfectly at home and \\ ell estab- lished here.

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