BIRDS IN THE CALENDAR 
neighbours in every latitude ; and even in the 
Antarctic one kind, closely related to our own, 
makes havoc among the penguins, an episode 
described by the late Dr. Wilson, one of the 
heroes of the ill-fated Scott expedition. 
Far more pleasing to the eye are the grace- 
ful little terns, or " sea-swallows," fairylike 
creatures with red legs and bill, long pointed 
wings and deeply forked tail, which skim 
the surface of the sea or hawk over the 
shallows of trout streams in search of dragon- 
flies or small fish. It is not a very rare ex- 
perience for the trout-fisherman to hook a 
swallow which may happen to dash by at 
the moment of casting ; but a much more 
unusual occurrence was that of a tern, on a 
well-known pool of the Spey, actually mis- 
taking a salmon-fly for a small fish and 
swooping on it, only to get firmly hooked by 
the bill. Fortunately for the too venturesome 
tern the fisherman was a lover of birds, and 
he managed with some difficulty to reel it in 
gently, after which it was released none the 
worse for its mistake. 
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