The Shoveller 



Taken in San Francisco 



A QUIET CORNER OF STOW LAKE 



Photo by the A ulhur 



Highly gregarious at all times, it is in the pursuit of food that the 

 Shovellers have developed a curious communal habit, called by the sports- 

 men "milling." This operation may be carried on by a dozen or by a 



hundred birds en 

 masse, and con- 

 sists of paddling 

 with increasing 

 speed upon the 

 surface of the 

 water, presum- 

 ably with the out- 

 side foot, until 

 the whole mass of 

 birds experiences 

 a rapid circular 

 or elliptical mo- 

 tion. The birds' 

 bodies are in ac- 

 tual contact, but 

 their heads are 

 all below, greed- 



Taken near Saiila Barbara 



1780 



BEHIND THE SCREEN 



