. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Farallon Cormorant. Taken on the Salton Sea AN AWKWARD LANDING THE NEIGHBOR OF THE UNFORTUNATE BIRD IS USING VERY UNLADYLIKE LANGUAGE Photo by the Author squirming. Perhaps we are over-fastidious. The squab has no feathers which need plucking or singeing, and as for removing the chicken's head before swallowing, it is a mere human custom, like washing the hands, or saying grace before meat. Ah, that is it! It is the gracelessness of the perform
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Farallon Cormorant. Taken on the Salton Sea AN AWKWARD LANDING THE NEIGHBOR OF THE UNFORTUNATE BIRD IS USING VERY UNLADYLIKE LANGUAGE Photo by the Author squirming. Perhaps we are over-fastidious. The squab has no feathers which need plucking or singeing, and as for removing the chicken's head before swallowing, it is a mere human custom, like washing the hands, or saying grace before meat. Ah, that is it! It is the gracelessness of the performance which gets on our nerves. If the gull would only say, "By your leave, gentle cousin," and observe a decent ceremony in lead- ing this lamb to the slaughter, we should quite approve of his action, should we not? It will be impossible in our limited space to record all the joys and the sorrows of shagdom; but a brief notice of some of the more prominent nesting colonies may not be amiss. The type locality for this subspecies, the Southeast Farallon, while situated about midway of its range, and typical enough as to situation, 1945. 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 Dawson, William Leon, 1873-1928; Dickey, Donald R. (Donald Ryder), 1887-1932; Pierce, Wright M; Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953; Brooks, Allan, 1869-1946. San Diego ; Los Angeles ; San Francisco : South Moulton Company
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