130 PIRATICAL HABITS. 
deriving a profit from their industry. Accord- 
ing to Catesby, the Pirate subsists entirely 
upon the spoils of others, and particularly 
the Booby. As soon as the former perceives 
that the latter has caught a fish, he flies 
furiously against it, and obliges it to dive 
under water for safety. The Pirate, not 
being able to follow it there, hovers above 
till the Booby is obliged to rise to the sur- 
face for breath, when it attacks it again, and 
ends by compelling it to surrender its fish ; 
and the unfortunate Booby has no remedy 
left but to go fishing again, and take his 
chance of keeping his booty to himself. S1- 
milar histories are given of the treatment of 
the Booby by a bird which Leguet calls 
a Frigate, and Dampier, a Man-of-War 
Bird. 
“ Why, that,” said Jane,” is just the way 
that I have seen one of the Monkeys in the 
Garden serve a lesser Monkey, his compa- 
nion. ixactly opposite to the kind and 
patronizing air of the Indian Badger toward 
his neighbour, the Coatimondi, the larger 
Monkey, when the lesser has a nut or any 
thing given to it, seizes it by the nape of the 
