. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE SKUA GULL. 621 side to side with extended pinions. Sometimes the bird does bend the last joint, but appar- ently merely for the purpose of checking its progress, like a ship backing her topsails. It is found in the Southern Seas. The Black-footed Albateoss {Diomedia nigripes) is abundant on the Pacific coast. The Short-tailed is also common on that coast. Its characteristic feature is its extremely short taU, contrasting strongly with the preceding, as the latter lias a long tail. It
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE SKUA GULL. 621 side to side with extended pinions. Sometimes the bird does bend the last joint, but appar- ently merely for the purpose of checking its progress, like a ship backing her topsails. It is found in the Southern Seas. The Black-footed Albateoss {Diomedia nigripes) is abundant on the Pacific coast. The Short-tailed is also common on that coast. Its characteristic feature is its extremely short taU, contrasting strongly with the preceding, as the latter lias a long tail. Its length is about three feet, with an extent of wing seven feet. The Sooty Albatross {Diomedia fusca), of Audubon, is about the same in dimeusious. The Yellow-nosed Albatross is eniamerated as an American GEOUP OF GBLLS. THE GULLS. The large family of the Gulls we will discuss here. The Skua is a large, fierce, and powerful bird, tyrannizing in a shameful manner over its weaker relations, and robbing them without mercy. It feeds mostly on fish, but prefers taking advantage of the labors of others to working honestly for its own living. As the lesser Gulls are busily fishing, the Skuas hover about the spot, and as soon as a poor Gull Las caught a fish, and is going ofl: to his family, down comes the Skua upon him with threatening beak and rocking wings, and when the victim drops his burden, to escape with greater facility, the Skua darts after the falling fish, and snaps it up before it reaches the water. It also eats eggs and the smaller bii'ds, a propensity which is shared by other Gulls than the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888; Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer; Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 182
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