LXXXIII. GULL'S NEST. 



THE drawing was made from an actual specimen, in situ, and 

 whilst it was in progress, the young bird in the egg (which, it 

 will be seen, is chipped) fairly extricated himself from the shell. 

 The fact of the young offspring being differently coloured 

 from their parents occurs among beasts as well as birds. Young 

 wild boars are striped, while the old ones are plain brown. A 

 young tapir I saw in the Zoo, which had been born there, was 

 striped very like them, while its mother was plain grey. The 

 young of the red deer and the roe are both spotted with white, 

 like the fallow deer. Foxes are born black ; so are tigers. Lions 

 have a few stripes and spots when very young. 



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