TAME BIRDS ON DESERT ISLANDS. 



FALKLAND ISLANDS. 



absence of all beasts of prey at the Galapagos is not the 

 cause of their tameness here. The upland geese at the Falk- 

 lands show, by the precaution they take in building on the 

 islets, that they are aware of their danger from the foxes; 



" EAKTH " OF THE FOX. 



but this does not make them wild toward man. In the 

 Falklands, the sportsman may sometimes kill more of the 

 upland geese in one day than he can carry home; whereas 

 in Tierra del Fuego, where the same species has for ages past 

 been persecuted by the wild inhabitants, it is nearly as diffi- 



