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ing, simply flapped heavily up again to renew 

 its search for food. But the gull, as was speed- 

 ily seen, had laughed all too soon ; for down 

 upon it from the neighboring shore swooped a 

 strong-winged man-of-war hawk, or frigate-bird. 



Frigate-bird. 



With a shrill cry of alarm the gull darted now 

 this way and now that, in zigzag lines, striving 

 with all its power to escape. Fear and fatigue 

 prevailing, he let his choice stolen morsel slip 

 from his grasp ; then the man-of-war bird, with 

 a lower swoop, clutched the falling fish and bore 

 it away to the nearest rock. 



" So the struggle for existence goes on," said 

 the doctor ; and, turning from hawks and gulls, 

 the party continued their search for specimens. 



