Apparently possessing a fondness for play, the old black-backs now and then pick up a 

 cast feather, a dead fern, or other object and carry it about. Note bird on left. A downy 

 youngster is following at the right (foreground), begging for food. 



Photos by Howard H. Cleaves 



the; i,ong-d£;i.aye;d mi;al is at last se;rve;d 



Half-digested fish, captured in the Bay of Fundy or the ocean, are disgorged before the 

 young gulls on the breeding islands in Lake George, several miles from the coast 



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