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turn rancid, and is capable of being kept for a year or 

 more in limpid purity. Some people say that the 

 squabs are delicate eating. It is, however, reported 

 by others that they have the taste of cockroaches. It 

 is singular that the odor of cockroaches is found in many 

 birds. I have noted it especially in the case of Petrels. 

 A Petrel flew on board the S.S. Carpathia, on which I 

 was crossing from the Mediterranean, not very long 

 before her memorable rescue of the shipwrecked passen- 

 gers of the Titanic. The bird was brought to me. I 

 afterwards released it, and it flew away ; but for a couple 

 of hours afterwards, though I washed my hands a 

 number of times, I could not get rid of a mild odor of 

 cockroaches which seemed to cling to my fingers after 

 handling the bird. 



