86 Wild Birds and their Haunts 



How Sea Birds Drink. 



Sea-birds sometimes spend weeks at sea, and are 

 believed to quench their thirst partly from the falling 

 iains and partly from the fat and oil which they devour 

 ravenously when opportunity puts them in their way. 

 The keen eyesight of birds is well known, and sea-bi^ds 

 have been observed flocking from all points of the com- 

 pass towards the stormcloud about to burst, and ap- 

 parently drinking the water as it descends from the skies. 



