Animal life in the sea and on the land . Fix. 174.—Sea-gcll. idly and gracefully over the sea, and when their keen eyes discover a tempting morsel in the water beneath, they make a sudden . ^ dive to procure it. These birds meet in large numbers to breed on the rocks, or on the sand-bars at the mouths of rivers and bays. Their shrill cry seems to be half a laugh and half a scream, and sounds very weird and melancholy when it is heard at night or during a raging storm. The graceful, elegant gulls generally keepquite near the shore,and are not found veryfar out at sea. 11. The Stormy Pet-rel.—Th
Animal life in the sea and on the land . Fix. 174.—Sea-gcll. idly and gracefully over the sea, and when their keen eyes discover a tempting morsel in the water beneath, they make a sudden . ^ dive to procure it. These birds meet in large numbers to breed on the rocks, or on the sand-bars at the mouths of rivers and bays. Their shrill cry seems to be half a laugh and half a scream, and sounds very weird and melancholy when it is heard at night or during a raging storm. The graceful, elegant gulls generally keepquite near the shore,and are not found veryfar out at sea. 11. The Stormy Pet-rel.—The stormy pet-rel, on the other hand,is met at great dis-tances from the the smallestof web - footed birds,and not larger than aswallow, it is very brave, and flies over the roughest sea with perfect confi-dence, rising with the billows and sinking with the fall-12. Fig. 175.—Stormy Petrel. 2GG ANIMAL LIFE IN THE SEA AND ON THE LAND.
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