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An About " Ari '*—A Herritw Gull. 



cheese above everything. A very favourite game of his, is 

 for somebody to place a piece of cheese between their 

 lips, and pretend to be totally unaware of the proximity of 

 Herring' Gulls 'or any other feathered thieves. " Ari " watches 



" ARI. 



Photo by F. Dawson-Smith. 



with bright, eager eyes, and quietly stretches out his neck, 

 towards the coveted morsel, then, with lightning rapidity, there 

 follows a " snap," and his lordship has collared and bottled 

 the tit-bit. This will give some idea of his extreme tameness. 

 Indeed, it would be quite impossible for any bird to be tamer 

 than he, and when, in the course of time he assumes his full 

 adult plumage of pearly grey and white, he will be a beautiful 

 bird. 



All Gulls keep themselves spotlessly clean in captivity, 

 by constant bathing and preening their feathers. I have kept 

 a good many Herring Gulls in the past, but none ever became 

 really ta;me, and, jjersonally, 1 don't care for a timid or wild 

 bird in captivity. Possibly those I had may have been too 

 old when caught. " Ari " is quite different and ridiculously 



