. Mutton birds and other birds . PERE. )LL Mutton Birds, I was told, lay onNovember 25tli, and such as cannotreach the land at that date drop theireggs during flight, or whilst at reston the so remarkable, and repeated onall hands, certainly whetted my desire to knowmore of these members of the Petrel tribe; andat once these too confident assertions proved tobe erroneous. During January, February, and part ofMarch I had many opportunities of visiting thebreeding quarters of these and other Petrelsboth on Stewart Island itself, and on adjacentislets and rocks. Later in the same
. Mutton birds and other birds . PERE. )LL Mutton Birds, I was told, lay onNovember 25tli, and such as cannotreach the land at that date drop theireggs during flight, or whilst at reston the so remarkable, and repeated onall hands, certainly whetted my desire to knowmore of these members of the Petrel tribe; andat once these too confident assertions proved tobe erroneous. During January, February, and part ofMarch I had many opportunities of visiting thebreeding quarters of these and other Petrelsboth on Stewart Island itself, and on adjacentislets and rocks. Later in the same year, duringpart of September, the whole of October, andNovember, and part of December, I wasagain in these southern latitudes. Thricealso on two of the small wind-swept islets thatlie south of Foveaux Strait and east of StewartIsland, camps were established foi* intervals ofvarying duration. These, mv credentials, I know, are scanty andsparse, and my remaiks as impertinent to thePetrels, as to the inhabitants of a continent is. AND OTHER BIRDS H the volume written ou their ways and views bya tripper on a summer touv. What is required—I shall manage it someday—is a two years constant residence, and awatchfulness kept up during every day andeA^ery night of each of the fifty-two weeks. Oh, these delightful islets of the south, theirclean seas and wooded shores. We were free,beyond recall for days, it was delightful towake like a child eager for the day, to whomstill the world is fresh and to whom each hourbrings wonder and surprise, to cheAV the cud ofyesterdays discoveries, th^^ morrows to antici-pate. Then what good fellows were the fishingfolk. All my life T have known gillies andgamekeepers to be the best of company, and nowI found myself intimately connected with a classof man equally simple and with the same widthof outside interests. Herekopere, or, as it is often called, TeMarama, is one of the many islets that dot theocean east of Stewart Island. It lies abouteight
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