. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . ngs, spreads histail, tosses his head in the air, and all the time sways hisneck up and down, uttering a curious cry. His materesponds in a similar strain. Then they press theirbeaks together, repeating this laughable performance bythe half-hour. These birds followed the ship Challengerfor five hundred miles soutlF*bf Heard Island, but lefther when two hundred miles from the Antarctic of the large gull-like birds, as the Antarctic skua,are fierce and dangerous creatures, preying upon otherbirds of all kinds. The naturalists ofthe Cha
. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . ngs, spreads histail, tosses his head in the air, and all the time sways hisneck up and down, uttering a curious cry. His materesponds in a similar strain. Then they press theirbeaks together, repeating this laughable performance bythe half-hour. These birds followed the ship Challengerfor five hundred miles soutlF*bf Heard Island, but lefther when two hundred miles from the Antarctic of the large gull-like birds, as the Antarctic skua,are fierce and dangerous creatures, preying upon otherbirds of all kinds. The naturalists ofthe Challenger were obliged to beatthem off at times, and when shootingother birds it was oftennecessary to shoot a skuabefore it carriedoff the penguincities are favoritenesting placesior these fiercebirds, their nestsbeing surrounded with piles of bones, suggestive of theircannibalistic habits. There is a northern skua (Fig. 125), alarge, powerful bird, which attacks other birds, sucks theeggs of ducks and various sea birds. The mollymauk,. Fig. 125. — Northern Skua. SOME OCEAN FLYERS l6l
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