. Bird lore . many people wereattracted to the docks. One photographer, Mr. Niebergall, took one hundredand twenty five different views of the birds. Mr. Beverick saw a Gull swallow three herrings, which together probablyweighed about two and one-half pounds. It tried unsuccessfully to swallow a Gull Pensioners 341 fourth one. After becoming so gorged, it was unable to fly far. Its weight wasperhaps doubled by the meal. From one fish-house some salted fish were thrown out, but were not relishedby the Gulls that took them. They did not swallow them until they wereapproached by other Gulls. Fres
. Bird lore . many people wereattracted to the docks. One photographer, Mr. Niebergall, took one hundredand twenty five different views of the birds. Mr. Beverick saw a Gull swallow three herrings, which together probablyweighed about two and one-half pounds. It tried unsuccessfully to swallow a Gull Pensioners 341 fourth one. After becoming so gorged, it was unable to fly far. Its weight wasperhaps doubled by the meal. From one fish-house some salted fish were thrown out, but were not relishedby the Gulls that took them. They did not swallow them until they wereapproached by other Gulls. Fresh fish, however, were devoured even moregreedily than those which had been frozen and thawed. After swallowing afrozen fish weighing about a pound, a Gull would remain in a humped positionuntil the fish was thawed enough so it could be bent. About March 20, a white Gull much larger than the others, probably theBurgomaster, remained with the Herring Gulls about three days, taking morethan its share of the A STUDY IN BIRD FLIGHTCopyright by E. Niebergall Tame Wild Turkeys By WILLIAM T. DAVIS With photographs by the author DOWN on the Florida coast, among the Ten Thousand Islands, in theGulf of Mexico, there is a small hamlet known as Everglade. Anarrow river ebbs and flows with the tide before the few houses onits banks, and the place has the appearance of being on the mainland. As amatter of fact, however, it is on an island; for the river has a back entrance,so to speak, and there is another lead out to the Gulf. Our mission to Ever-glade, in April, 1912, was the collecting of insects, and so daily we rambledabout the garden or in the near-by salt meadows. Also, strolling about this open area and among the orange trees were threetame Wild Turkeys—two gobblers and a hen. They, too, were entomologists,and interested in grasshoppers. With the hen we had Httle to do, for she S ^WT
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