Show SEA are a host of sea with which we are not which are fully as interesting as the land says a contributor to Boys and Their habits are quite as a matter of Many sea birds pass their lives on the sleeping at night with their heads tucked in their and floating peace-fully on the They feed on fishes and small animals that they snatch on the surface of the They go on shore to raise their choosing the most desolate places lonely islands and steep of families are raised on the bare and mingle their shrill screams with the roar of the The gulls are abundant the world With their strong wings they fly gracefully over the Often on seeing a tempting morsel under the water they suddenly dive for They meet to raise their young on the rocks or sand at the mouths of rivers or These graceful birds do not venture far out from Another bird is the stormy which lives far out on the A. very small bird it the smallest of all web-footed It is no larger than a but quite flying with ease over the rough rising and sinking with the as if in sympathy with They are sometimes called Carey's and are one of the pleasures of a sea as they hover over the vessel from day to The largest bird that swims is the It has a snowy white body and black It seems to delight in fierce and has been known to follow a ship in for many It flits over the free as the once in awhile swimming on the There is an eider duck which is a real sea living in winter in large flocks on the Arctic In spring these birds mate and swim off the The female builds a nest of dry grass and and lines it with the soft down from her Her eggs are pale green and are usually from six to ten in When she leaves her nest in search of she carefully covers her eggs with Every one has heard of eiderdown and knows of its light It is a distressing manner in which our eider-down is The natives rob the nests and take the The eggs are as well as the The mother in great builds another the male stripping down from his This second nest is not as the natives fear the birds would leave the shore |