. Among the water-fowl : observation, adventure, photography : a popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains . .1 -3* 114 Ocean Wanderers forth. As at our Expositions, different classes ornationalities have their day, so off^ on the sea,perhaps for purposes of exposition to the ornithol-ogist kindly furnished by Providence, different kindsof birds have theirs. Usually the Greater Shear-water is the abundant Haglet, outnumberingtheir dark-hued relative twenty to one. But nowand then conies a Sooty d
. Among the water-fowl : observation, adventure, photography : a popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains . .1 -3* 114 Ocean Wanderers forth. As at our Expositions, different classes ornationalities have their day, so off^ on the sea,perhaps for purposes of exposition to the ornithol-ogist kindly furnished by Providence, different kindsof birds have theirs. Usually the Greater Shear-water is the abundant Haglet, outnumberingtheir dark-hued relative twenty to one. But nowand then conies a Sooty day, when the order isalmost reversed, though the disproportion is seldom b ipropc as great. Perhaps there is a colour-line amongthe Shearwaters, so that when the coloured Hagsin large numbers invade the Crab Ledge, mostof the lighter-coloured aristocrats manage to findmore congenial marine pastures elsewhere. Attimes in August we are treated to a Phalaropeday, when rafts of these dainty little creatures dotthe water far off shore. But, of all these special occasions, I know nonemore entertaining than Jaeger day at this greatmarine exposition of Nature. One such that Ishall ever remember was the 26th of Augu
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