Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . baited fish hooks which I trailed from the good brigs sternfor the express purpose of catching birds. But they seemedto be the wariest and most suspicious of all the larger species,and, moreover, whenever they descended near the bait, theywould becomedistractedby quarrel-ing , while theysat lightly uponthe water, utter-ing trumpet-like calls, seiz-ing bits of woodor oakum in ourwake and shak-ing them until foam flew, vessel and treacherousof fatwould the the the pieces pork rapidly. drawaway. On the mistyafternoon ofNovember 23,1912, just be-fore
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . baited fish hooks which I trailed from the good brigs sternfor the express purpose of catching birds. But they seemedto be the wariest and most suspicious of all the larger species,and, moreover, whenever they descended near the bait, theywould becomedistractedby quarrel-ing , while theysat lightly uponthe water, utter-ing trumpet-like calls, seiz-ing bits of woodor oakum in ourwake and shak-ing them until foam flew, vessel and treacherousof fatwould the the the pieces pork rapidly. drawaway. On the mistyafternoon ofNovember 23,1912, just be-fore we sightedSouth Georgia,three of the in-imitably graceful Sooty Albatrosses welcomed us to theirAntarctic island by circling round and round the brig, pois-ing successively above the golden ball on the foretopgallant ;3**W^** SOOTY ALBATROSS IN FLIGHT Latitude 48° S., South Atlantic Ocean, November 18, 1912. 99 mast. In the fiords of South Georgia we found that theSooties were beginning to nest. They made their homes onperilous ledges wherever mountain headlands rose abruptlyfrom the sea, and while one of a pair was sitting upon the sin-gle egg, we often saw the other sailing with inspiring, effort-less motion, back and forth, back and forth, always passingclose to its nest and gazing with a white-ringed eye at itsquiet mate. During four months at South Georgia, I sawplenty of nests crowded against the rough faces of sheercliffs, as high as seven hundred feet above the rocky beaches,but there were not more than three of
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