. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . Oungof that species, is dark in coloration. The southern edge of THE GREAT CUTHBERT ROOKERY //. CORMORANTS, IBISES, AND A HERON. FLUTTERING FROM THE LOW MANGROVES the great open, grassy quagmires of the Everglades is onlya few miles from this spot. These marshes are the main re-sort of this bird, which is often called Snail Hawk, becauseit is said to feed almost exclusively on an abounding speciesof fresh-water snail, extracting the creature from its shell bymeans of the hooked bill. Ther
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . Oungof that species, is dark in coloration. The southern edge of THE GREAT CUTHBERT ROOKERY //. CORMORANTS, IBISES, AND A HERON. FLUTTERING FROM THE LOW MANGROVES the great open, grassy quagmires of the Everglades is onlya few miles from this spot. These marshes are the main re-sort of this bird, which is often called Snail Hawk, becauseit is said to feed almost exclusively on an abounding speciesof fresh-water snail, extracting the creature from its shell bymeans of the hooked bill. There were plenty of these emptysnail-shells about, upon which, very probably, these kiteshad been feeding. As they soared, — the whole six quite closetogether and rather low over the island, — though the sunhad gone down, I secured some tolerable snap-shot silhouettepictures of the interesting party. The only other feathered visitors to the rookery whichwe noticed were a few straggling Wood Ibises and WardsHerons. But there were some gentry with leathery hideswhich were too interesting to be neglected. The lake wasa great place for alligators, and we often saw them floatingon the shallow, muddy
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