i124 RECORDS VOLUME XII, SEPT, 1920. 
the tires like a knife. These blankety gulls 
are in every way a nuisance: and they eat 
fish, too.” : 
By the shore on the southern side of the 
Cape, it is easy for one to fancy he is in an- 
other country because of the Laughing Gulls 
which are everywhere in evidence, and the — 
Herring Gulls are comparatively few. Their 
call and conversations are not so wearing on 
on the ear, as heard in the early morning 
when one wishes to sleep, as the raucous calls 
of the Herring Gull. Perhaps this impres- 
slon was because of its novelty. The red bill 
of the Laughing Gull looks black at a dis- 
tance; but he is easily identified by his dark 
mantle with fringe of whiteand by the con- 
trast between the white neck and the black 
head while flying about. 
On the morning of May 9, there suddenly 
appeared out of the mist near the shore an 
Egret. itlookedimmense as it was seen fly- 
ing along about 40 or 50 feet aboveand about 
100 yards away. It remaind in view a few 
