Jan., 1913 
A GLniPSE OE vSURE-BIRDS 
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engaged in feeding npon the white barnacles which covered the reef. These 
seemed to form their exclusive diet for the time ; and it was interesting to see a 
bird get a good griji on a reluctant cirriped, then brace and haul him out by main 
force. It was yeoman service, and many a bill was smeared with bug juice, not 
to mention “biramoiis cirri” and other delicate crustacean apparatus. 
Eig. 4. SURK-KIRDS: A SANDPIPER POSE 
From a photograph, copyright, 1913, by W. I,. Dawson 
There were about twenty of the birds, twenty-three to be exact, and one 
lllack Turnstone kept with them most of the time, although lie might have found 
plenty of his own kind not far away. ( )nce the Snrf-hirds deserted him and left 
him trembling on the rock: but 1 was nnjirepared to utilize the siinerb jiose which 
his lonely plight jiresented a moment later, and he made off with startled cries. 
Eig. .S. vSURF-BIRDS: SHIFTING 
F'rom a photograph, copyright, 1913, by W. I,. Dawson 
As for the Snrf-birds. as often as they were dislodged thev retired to a strip of 
sand a few rods away and fell to gleaning like pipers. 
On my last sally from the liase of supplies I was determined to press advan- 
tage home. The gulls, who would fain h.ave occupied the reef themselves, 
shrieked warnings when they saw me advancing upon the unsophisticated Surf 
