. 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 . consider the others its enemies, and theywill all set to screaming and tearing at one anotherin the most desperate fashion. From the accountsof this Hag-baiting I should judge that Game-cocksand Kilkenny Cats had at least their equals in thesemarine fighters. I could not quite bring myself toexperiment with this cruelty, contenting myselfwith the description, that the traits of these birdshere obser
. 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 . consider the others its enemies, and theywill all set to screaming and tearing at one anotherin the most desperate fashion. From the accountsof this Hag-baiting I should judge that Game-cocksand Kilkenny Cats had at least their equals in thesemarine fighters. I could not quite bring myself toexperiment with this cruelty, contenting myselfwith the description, that the traits of these birdshere observed made entirely credible. It was much more difficult to photograph thePetrels than the Shearwaters. They moved soquickly that it was hard to get the camera focusedand aimed at short range before they were off, and,even when I did, the motion of their wings was sorapid that it required more speed than that of anordinary shutter. To-day, however, with the newReflex camera or the focusing finder, these diffi-culties have been greatly lessened. Once out on the fishing-grounds, aside from thevicissitudes of the elements, there is always thedelightful uncertainty as to what a day may bring 113. 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 comes a Sooty day, when the order isalmost reversed, though the disproportion is seldomas 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 lindmore congenial marine pastures elsewhere. Attimes in August we are treated to a * Phalaropeday, when rafts of these dainty little creatures dotthe water far o
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