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the fine fresh water ponds they had so delighted in bathing in during the past 
winter, they found a great change had taken place. The buildings which they 
had stolidly watched in the making had grown into a marvelous city of beauty 
and grace, and it was peopled by throngs of human beings. These remarkable 
beings brought with them food, more food than they could eat, often leaving 
a goodly share upon the lawns and in many places. At first a few gulls found 
these gleanings in the early mornings, before the people came, and hastened to 
feast undisturbed (fig. 5). The news of the feasting spread far and wide, and 
as the hosts arrived from the rapidly freezing north they joined the earlier 
arrivals and assisted in the enjoyment of such good things, growing more 
(1915) that the acquaintance ripened into intimacy, and the Panama-Pacific 
International Exposition was the means of bringing this about. 
In the winter of 1914-15, when the lawns of the Exposition grounds were 
first laid out along the marina, and grass started upon them, it was remarked 
that flocks of gulls had been attracted thereby and had seized upon these open 
level spots as fine places to congregate and sun themselves, possibly finding 
some scraps from workmen’s lunch baskets as a pleasing addition to their cus- 
tomary rations (fig. 4). But the matter ended there for that season, the birds 
drifting away to their breeding places as spring approached. Upon their 
return last fall, however, to take possession of their new sunning grounds and 
Fig. 7 . Bird on wing in act of catching piece of bread tossed to it 
