TAME BIRDS ON DESERT ISLANDS. 



ATLANTIC OCEAN. 



TAME BIRDS ON DESERT ISLANDS. 



WE found, on St. Paul's Rocks, only two kinds of birds 



the booby and the noddy. The former is a species of gan- 



net, and the latter a tern. Both are of a tame and stupid 



disposition, and are so unused to visitors that I could have 



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ST. PAUL'S ROCKS. 



killed any number of them with my geological hammer. The 

 booby lays her eggs on the bare rock; but the tern makes a 

 very simple nest with sea-w T eed. By the side of many of 

 these nests a small flying-fish was placed, which, I suppose, 

 had been brought by the male bird for its partner. It was 

 amusing to watch how quickly a large and active crab, which 

 inhabits the crevices of the rocks, stole the fish from the side 



