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The time of the return is doubtless more or less 

 governed by the success of the expedition, but the young 

 seem to be fed most actively between eight and ten in the 

 morning and two and four in the afternoon. The latest 

 fishers reach the island when it is too dark to distinguish 

 minor details of the landscape and at such times I have had 



The Pelican Yawn 



them sweep by within a few yards; nevertheless they 

 appear to go to their nest-sites without difficulty and the 

 resulting outcry indicates that their young do not go to bed 

 supperless. 



Menhaden form a large proportion of the fish captured 

 and big or little they are carried not in the pouch, but too 

 far down the throat to be visible even as a protuberance. 



