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THE GLAUCOrS-WIXr.ED Gri.E. 



llu- inuther sfill urges, "Can't Mania's (laiiiii<;> eat just ouc umre tishv?" until 

 the l)eh()lik'r, recalling; tlie \va_\-s of his (iwn kind, is ahnosl nauseated. 



(ruils arc credited with "screaius" or "cries," but it is not, [jcrliaps, gener- 

 aU\- understood that the notes of diti'erenl S])ccies are distincti\-c ; or tliat eacli 

 s])ecics ])ossesses a cnusideralile \iicahnlar\", witii which tri \-oice the major 



ciiiolions. This 

 fact was forced 

 home u|)ou tlie 

 w rite r only 

 wlien he lav in 

 camp, a \-olun- 

 tary Crusoe for 

 a week, on a 

 bird rock of the 

 lower Sound. 

 Here, since 

 there was n(.')th- 

 iuQ- to be heard 

 sa\e the mur- 

 muring voices 

 nf the sea, the 

 hissing of 

 Pigeon Guille- 

 mots, and the 

 notes of the 

 (.^7 1 a 11 c o u s - 

 winged Gulls, 

 it is not sur- 

 prising that the 

 last-named be- 

 gan to fall into 

 some sort of 

 o r d e r , with 

 dawning signif- 

 icances, as the 

 week drew to 

 its close. At the 

 risk of wearying the reader, since the experience is possibly unic|ue, I venture 

 to enumerate the leading sounds, or phrases, of this little-known gull tongue; 



The bi'ulc-qiialciii;/ iiotrs — harsh, unmusical, and of iiKiderate pitch, used 

 to express distrust and continued disappro\-al. During deli\-ery the mandibles 

 are brought together three m- fnur times in moderate succession. This is the 



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Taken in RoSiirio Strait. 



Photo by II'. /.. D.KwoH. 



SM.^RTY. 



