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Before we had passed the restless waves off Hatteras 

 we became famiHar with the flocks of Herring- Gulls, 

 as they gleaned the refuse from the wake of the shij). 



GANNET. A CAPTIVK \VIL1> BIRD 



The Stormy Petrels, the Rino-biHed Gulls and the Gan- 

 nets delighted us, and Black-fish and Dolphins played 

 about us day after day. 



Farther to the south we disturbed immense flocks 

 of Phalaropes — little sjindpipers of the sea — spend- 

 ing the winter far from land. Occasionally the steam- 

 er's prow bore down upon a solitary Loon, forcing it 

 to dive, and in the blackness of night these brave birds 



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