. The Wilson bulletin . ir prey. The gannet especially, being a weak flyer,falls an easy victim to these thieves. I remember one eveningobserving a gannet that had just returned from fishing, witha crop full of fish, fleeing from one of these birds. At firstit seemed as though the gannet would out-fly its pursuer andreach the beach, where it would be more than a match for itsenemy; but its load was too heavy. The man-o-war over-took the quarry, seized it by the tail, and then suddenly rais-ing itself in the air, turned the gannet completely over. Whenthe gannet, thus rudely overturned, lost co
. The Wilson bulletin . ir prey. The gannet especially, being a weak flyer,falls an easy victim to these thieves. I remember one eveningobserving a gannet that had just returned from fishing, witha crop full of fish, fleeing from one of these birds. At firstit seemed as though the gannet would out-fly its pursuer andreach the beach, where it would be more than a match for itsenemy; but its load was too heavy. The man-o-war over-took the quarry, seized it by the tail, and then suddenly rais-ing itself in the air, turned the gannet completely over. Whenthe gannet, thus rudely overturned, lost control and disgorgedthe contents of its crop, the man-o-war plunged and actuallycaught the fish, even as it came from the gannets mouth. From previous reports it appears that the man-o-war birdswere less abundant on Laysan fonnerly than today, the pres-ent number being estimated at about 12,500. It seemedstrange to us that they should increase in numbers when weobserved their wholesale slaughter of each others offspring;.
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