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mmperative Lo meat - takes the form o a shrill whistle, the fisherman which s quite as cffective amongst the to land his e - birds as the most claborate of dinner- catch on the | congs, for this becomes the signal for a

picr, the re- ceneral seramble, and down they come

jected offal - to one point 1 a mass of flapping, struggling heing thrown - wings, legs, heads, and tails, splashing, tug- back mto the T aging, several tearing at one piece. Qur first

sei. The keen sicht and smell of the scea hirds cnable them to seize the opportu- nitv. T'he pier- manager has the offal saved and doled out to the birds at a regular hour, and now at noon daily the hirds are fed : at Teast, during the winter months., Such a o dehightfully lvely dinner party is a thing to be remems- hered by those who have once witnessed . cCrrace before

tlustration zives an - excellent adea of - the seenc.

The next hve photographs show how therr aspeet varies with the wind, One day they keep therr sides towards us @ another day they face us; or turn themr hacks on us, bhut alwavs keep their heads towards the wind. No ruffled plumage 1 they can help

The wild sca bird s the proverbial emblem ol unfettered freedom, vet year alter year she returns to vear her fanaly where she hersell st saw the hghte During Mareh the dimner on the pier is given up for lack of guests. A deputation of a couple of birds has visited the old breedimg cround @ a few davs clapse, and another and larger embassage goes to sce that all 1= vight, and then all depart, to he seen no more i their winter quarters till winter shows signs ol returning. In October cvidence ol memory and of the communi- cation ol ideas may be seen. Supposce the weather has allowed o supply of the dimner material to be obtamed, the feedimg having ceascd siee March, not a0 bivd will he sicht o but let the feedme whistle be hlown, and from all pomts across the sea they come