AMONG THE WATER-FOowL 
Though I did not succeed in this, the effort was 
not wholly in vain, for through it I learned the 
reason for this habit. ‘This breeding colony of the 
Eared Grebes closely adjoined a far larger one of 
thousands of the Franklin’s Rosy Gull. Hardly 
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A FRANKLIN'S ROSY GULL EATING EGGS OF EARED GREBE, ON “ BAST 
SIDE.”’ THE OWNER WATCHING. 
had I returned to my anchorage, when a Gull alit 
upon one of the nests which ii iid uncovered, and 
proceeded to pierce the eggs with its bill and devour 
the contents. I pulled the string and exposed 
plate upon this interesting procedure. The picture 
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