. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. me photographs of the beastin its natural surroundings. In the left-hand corner of thePelicans enclosure hand corner ofpage 398 will be found anAntarctic Skua from the Straitsof Magellan, though I am sorryto say by the time this is inprint there is every probabilitythat it will have joined themajority, for, like the gannets(lately illustrated), the skuasnever live long at the birds (Stercorariiiue) form Zoo Notes 397 one of the three sub-families of the familyLaridce, the other two being SternincB andLarinm. Profes
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. me photographs of the beastin its natural surroundings. In the left-hand corner of thePelicans enclosure hand corner ofpage 398 will be found anAntarctic Skua from the Straitsof Magellan, though I am sorryto say by the time this is inprint there is every probabilitythat it will have joined themajority, for, like the gannets(lately illustrated), the skuasnever live long at the birds (Stercorariiiue) form Zoo Notes 397 one of the three sub-families of the familyLaridce, the other two being SternincB andLarinm. Professor H. N. Moseley, in hisNotes made during the voyage of Challenger, observes: The Skua is agull which has acquired a sharp, curvedbeak, and sharp claws at the tips of its but their principal food here appears to bethe night birds, especially the prions, whichthey drag from their holes, or pounce on asthey come out of them. The place wasstrewed with the skeletons of prions, withthe meat torn oflf them by these gulls,which leave behind the bones and HAIRY-NOSED WOMBAT. webbed toes. The birds are thoroughlypredaceous in their habits, quartering theirground on the look-out for carrion, andassembling in numbers where there is any The Prions referred to above are a genusof petrels, a characteristic of which is thegreat breadth of their bill at the baseand the denticulated or serrated edges of thing killed, in the same curious way as their mandibles. No speciixien of the prionvultures. They steal eggs and young birds is recorded as ever having been exhibitedfrom the penguins when they get a chance, at the Zoo. 398 Animal Life One of the largest of the Cl-coniidm (storks)^f^Brazu is the Mycteriaamericana, orJabirii. This bird is chieflyconspicuous for the massivesize of the bill, which is verjslightly retrousse and of adeep black; it reaches downthe bare neck to within afew inches of where theplumage commences, thesefew inches being of a pinkishcolour. The black of t
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