. St. Nicholas [serial]. weather. All such beliefs, including the timefor planting gardens and for going fishing, aremere superstitions—the survivals of an age ofignorance. Malcolm McNeill. THE RECKLESS LOVE-BIRD. Nearly every kind of wild fowl has somepeculiarity of habit which amounts almost toan eccentricity, and the variety of such pecu-liarities is astonishing. Sea-birds, from theircustom of nesting on protected rocks and islets,are possibly better skilled in devising means fortheir comfort and safety than most other any rate, we find among them many strikingexamples of droll p
. St. Nicholas [serial]. weather. All such beliefs, including the timefor planting gardens and for going fishing, aremere superstitions—the survivals of an age ofignorance. Malcolm McNeill. THE RECKLESS LOVE-BIRD. Nearly every kind of wild fowl has somepeculiarity of habit which amounts almost toan eccentricity, and the variety of such pecu-liarities is astonishing. Sea-birds, from theircustom of nesting on protected rocks and islets,are possibly better skilled in devising means fortheir comfort and safety than most other any rate, we find among them many strikingexamples of droll personality. There dwells on most of the isolated coral. A LUNAR VOLCANO. A QUEER PLACE FOR A BIRD TO LAY AND HATCH ITS EGG. islets and volcanic crags, scattered plentifullythrough Oceanica, a little white tern, or sea-swallow, about the size of a dove, known asthe love-bird. Save only for a narrow band ofjetty feathers surrounding the eye, its plumageis of a lustrous white and its beak is black. Thewriter met this little fellow among the rockyislets and atolls which are widely scattered tothe northwestward of the Hawaiian Islands. 1904.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. II3I
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