PART III. 



OCEAN WANDERERS 



(Shcarivatcrs, Skuas, Petrels, Phalaropes) 



I SHALL never forget the day on which began 

 my intimacy with a class of birds of whose existence 

 I had been hardly more than aware — birds that 



THE REALM OF THE OCEAN WANDERERS 

 OFF EAST POINT, MAGDALEN ISLANDS, FAR FROM HUMAN HABITATION 



make the billows of ocean their home. It was the 

 twelfth of July. The first gray of the morning 

 found me, with a party of friends, scudding down 

 the bay of Chatham, Mass., in a fishing sloop. A 

 light south-west breeze and a racing tide swept us 



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