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sided with the gulls by throwing around their nest a wire 

 entanglement, with a sally-port at one side for the use of the 

 beleaguered pair. 



The voice of an angry or frightened laughing gull is it owner's 

 chief defense. The female sat on her nest and shrieked out her 

 shrill and defiant war cry of "Kah! kah, kah, kah!" The 

 male took post just outside the sally-port, where he postured 

 and screamed and threatened until we wondered why he did 

 not burst with superheated emotion. I am sure that never 

 before did two small gulls ever raise so much racket in so short 

 a time and their cage-mates must have found it rather trying. 



The gulls hatched their eggs, they reared their young suc- 

 cessfully, and at last peace was restored. 



A Mother Antelope Fights Off an Eagle. Mr. Howard 

 Eaton, of Wolf, Wyoming, once saw a female prong-horned 

 antelope put up a strong and successful fight in defense of 

 her newly-born fawn. A golden eagle, whose spring specialty 

 is for fawns, kids and lambs, was seen to swoop swiftly down 

 toward a solitary antelope that had been noticed on a treeless 

 range beside the Little Missouri. It quickly became evident 

 that the eagle was after an antelope fawn. As the bird swooped 

 down toward the mother, and endeavored to seize her fawn 

 in its talons, the doe rose high on her hind legs, and with her 

 forelegs flying like flails struck with her sharp-pointed hoofs 

 again and again. Her blows went home, and feathers were 

 seen to fly from the body of the marauder. 



The doe made good her defense. The eagle was glad to 

 escape, and as quickly as possible pulled himself together and 

 flew away. 



The Defensive Circle of the Musk-Ox. Several arctic 

 explorers have described the wonderful living-ring defense, 

 previously mentioned, of musk-ox herds against wolves. Mr. 

 Paul Rainey's moving pictures have shown it to us in 

 thrilling detail, with Eskimo dogs instead of wolves. When a 

 musk-ox herd is attacked by the big and deadly arctic white 



