;;:::;::Ss TWO bird -LOVERS IN MEXICO xfe-"-" 



Before we had jjassed the restless waves off Hatteras 

 we became famihar with the flocks of Herring Gulls, 

 as they gleaned the refuse from the wake of the ship. 



GANNET. A CAPTIVE WILD BIRD 



The Stormy Petrels, the Ring-billed Gulls and the Gan- 

 nets delighted us, and Black-fish and Dolphins played 

 about us day after day. 



Farther to the south we disturbed immense flocks 

 of Phalaropes — little sandpipers of the sea — spend- 

 ing the winter far from land. Occasionally the steam- 

 er's prow bore down upon a solitary Loon, forcing it 

 to dive, and in the blackness of night these brave birds 



