OcEAN WANDERERS 
forth. As at our “ Expositions,’’ different classes or 
nationalities have-them <‘day,’’ so off on the ‘sea, 
perhaps for purposes of exposition to the ornithol- 
ogist kindly furnished by Providence, different kinds 
of birds have theirs. Usually the Greater Shear- 
water is the abundant “ Haglet,’ outnumbering 
their dark-hued relative twenty to one. But now 
and then comes a “Sooty day,’ when the order is 
almost reversed, though the disproportion is seldom 
as great. Perhaps there is a “ colour-line”” among 
the Shearwaters, so that when the “coloured”? Hags 
imdaree, mumbers/ invade the’“(Crab Ledge,” -most 
of the lighter-coloured aristocrats manage to find 
more congenial marine pastures elsewhere. At 
fimes im AWeUst we are treated. to: a “< Phalarope 
day,” when rafts of these dainty little creatures dot 
the water far off shore. 
But, of all these special occasions, I know none 
more entertaining than “Jaeger day” at this great 
marine exposition of Nature. One such that I 
shall ever remember was the 26th of August, 
four years ago. Long before we. reached “Crab 
Ledge” I knew it was “ Jaeger day,” for the great 
dark fellows were everywhere about, chasing the 
Terns and Bonaparte’s Gulls in their savage fashion. 
And what a strange fashion it is! If a Tern or 
small Gull happens near a Jaeger, there is almost 
certainly trouble in store. The latter gives chase. 
The pursued makes every effort to escape. But the 
Jaeger,—well named he is, “ hunter,’’—is the better 
flier. With savage scornts he strikes his little 
white cousin from this direction and from. that. 
Mounting in the air ts of no avail. So at last, in 
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