. Bombay ducks; an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist's Eldorado . sappearance that one recognizes the osprey. The fishing operations of the terns, or sea-swallowsas they are sometimes called, fall rather flat after thoseof the raptorial bird. When a tern dives there is noneof the mighty splash which marks the performanceabove described. The tern does its work so neatlythat it enters the water with little more commotionthan that made by a falling pebble. The tern isto the manner born. It comes of a long line of fisher-folk. For myriads of generations its an
. Bombay ducks; an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist's Eldorado . sappearance that one recognizes the osprey. The fishing operations of the terns, or sea-swallowsas they are sometimes called, fall rather flat after thoseof the raptorial bird. When a tern dives there is noneof the mighty splash which marks the performanceabove described. The tern does its work so neatlythat it enters the water with little more commotionthan that made by a falling pebble. The tern isto the manner born. It comes of a long line of fisher-folk. For myriads of generations its ancestors have divedafter their finny prey. The osprey, or fish-hawk as it isoften called, is, on the other hand, a bird of prey whichhas taken to fishing. It is, so to speak, an amateur;exceeding skilled, it is true, but nevertheless, by com-parison with the sea-swallow, an amateur. One natur-ally expects to see a tern dive for its food, but towitness a great bird of prey tumble headlong into thewater, like a falling boulder, takes ones breath away. It is the great skill of the tern which causes its.
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