The Badminton Magazine 1895-11: Vol 1 Iss 4 (1895)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 48
AMONG THE SEA-BIRDS 471 ever on the watch for a chance.of picking and stealing. It seems possible, therefore, that the overcrowding of the colony is due to the mutual protection afforded by numbers. The single egg of the guillemot is laid on the bare rock, with not the slightest pretence of any… … LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL tion to the bird, and very pointed in shape. As already men- tioned, the eggs vary to an extraordinary degree, some being almost white, boldly splashed and marked with rich brown spots and stripes ; others dark green, with similar markings; others, again, with every…
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