. Three voyages of a naturalist, being an account of many little- known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla," ; . :^^4 ^ft^ it. SACRED IBISES 79 ibis here, as there is no regular supply of freshwater on the island, but we were told that theyusually came to the water troughs which are putround the lighthouse for the fowls belonging tothe keeper. The principal food of this bird onDassen Island appears to be the intestines of theyoung cormorants, and all the young ibises whichwe caught ejected a mass of entrails. Owing totheir predilection for this food, these beautifulbirds
. Three voyages of a naturalist, being an account of many little- known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla," ; . :^^4 ^ft^ it. SACRED IBISES 79 ibis here, as there is no regular supply of freshwater on the island, but we were told that theyusually came to the water troughs which are putround the lighthouse for the fowls belonging tothe keeper. The principal food of this bird onDassen Island appears to be the intestines of theyoung cormorants, and all the young ibises whichwe caught ejected a mass of entrails. Owing totheir predilection for this food, these beautifulbirds are considered as vermin, and are slaughteredon every possible occasion by the great many of the young escape, however,owing to the nests being placed close to those ofthe cormorants, near which no one is allowed to go-Besides the birds already mentioned there was seen close to the lighthouse a pair of ringed plovers,* from whose actions it became evident that there were young in the vicinity, and after a careful search we found one in downy plumage. These birds are not unlike the Kentish plover in size and general appearance, b
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