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WILD WINGS 
fly across to the ocean for that purpose. Since it was not 
feeding-time during our stay, we saw this curious operation 
only a very few times. The youngsters, with greedy violence, 
thrust head and neck away down into the parent’s gullet, 
and gobble away at the partly digested fish. In the case of 
THEY MADE ME THINK OF GANGS OF BOYS ” 
the older children, roaming around in bands, it would seem 
remarkable if parents can identifv their own, and if commun¬ 
ism is not for a time the order of pelican society. 
Presentlv we made a visit to the other large group of peli¬ 
cans at the southwest corner of the island, about a hundred 
and fiftv yards from the first. Here we found a similar state 
of affairs. Each of the many occupied nests was brooded over 
bv a devoted parent •—-1 could not tell whether male or female. 
Yet there was considerable going and coming, for one reason 
or other, making a lively scene, with enough noise from the 
harsh, croaking voices of the birds to suggest considerable 
