THE SNAKE-BIRD UNDER WATER 



it can pursue and capture live fish under water is enough to 

 strike terror to the hearts of finny folk. The bird swims with 

 a sharp kink in its neck, driving forward by powerful strokes 



SNAKE-BIRD. 



of its cup-shaped feet. On overtaking a fish the kink in its 

 neck flies straight, and like the stab of a swift dagger the 

 finny victim is transfixed. Then the bird rises to the surface 

 for it is unable to swallow its food under water tosses the fish 

 into the air, catches it head first and in an instant it is gone. 



