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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH THURSDAY: MARCH
BIRDS AT SEA.
Notes From Eastern Waters.
We were in the Red Sea, and I
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Yew York : -America's chance. was looking at a creup of Chinese of retaining the International' [firemen sprowled on the after! Palo Cup in the challenge match hatch, and wondering whete in with the Hurlingham Club at England a chance group of work-¦ Mead wwbrook, Westbury, Long jers could be found to match those Island. has had a slump as the tine bronze figures, when a ray of result of the announcement that [coloured light dashed over them¦ Louis Stoddard, the veteran num- (and focussed on a davit. It was berone has retired and that Louis jan unfamilar bird, and I began to Lacey and David Miles, of the stalk it with binveulars, while it Argentine Federation, will pro- changed its perches about Bably be candidates for the the poop, till it was made out British team.
[to be a bee-eater. Then I found Stoddard. who has been pre- the chief mate was behind me,sident of the United States Polo intent also with his binoculars Association for two years, said We had some bickering about it. He said the bird was a roller; but I told him he should stick to his chipping hammer and leave ornithology to better men...
that he had retired principally to give an incentive to the younger man in the game, but he had also considered the injuries he has received in recent years and the need of attention to business,
He said he would soon show me who was the better man, and He is regarded as one of the escorted me the length of the ship greatest forwards in the game to his cabin, where he produced & and a fixture whenever America bird book, which was a log of puts forward her best side. several long voyages to the Far His loss May Fast. Like so
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not the business of sailors at all. from Hurlingham in 1991. as He had been entering the names there was talk of moving Webb of land birds which he had re- from number three to numbers cmised as sea, and his recordone, and leaving his position to suggested what an excellent book be contested by some younger a sailor, who is also a naturalist.players such as the two Bel- my write for us some day.
monte, Morgan and Raymond. This sailor had observed for Malcolm Stevenson and Robert himself, what naturalists know Strawbridge. junior. Anyhow well enough, that the gulls are the Association will not be em- not sea-birds at all in the sense barrassed for lack of material, that are the albatrosses and since in Major A. L. Wilson, of petrels, and the frigate and bo'sun the army four which won the birds of the tropics. When you International Military Cham- see them land is rear, though poinship, one of the best forwards dirty weather may hide it. The now riding could be used, and herring galls, kittiwakes, and Major Louis Beard. a star back, black-backs never follow a ship! could replace Webb.
to blue water. When, outward- bound, land dissolves astern. then
One great surprise of the tropi- cal islands of the East Indies is the scarcity of ses birds.
they leave you, too. You may he was likely to be found so far meet their follows again off to the westward. Ushant or Finisterre if your ship passes not too far from the land: but should you be well to the westward, then the ship's next visitors will be land-birds when approaching Gibraltar.
Those lonely islands in seas where gales are unknown, and food is abundant, appear to be a Several pairs of noddies kept paradise for gulls. But there are about the ship at the lower end of no gulls. One may watch more the Red Sea, and not, because of sea-birds off Lundy any morning anything we could give them in June than I saw in months of except our society. They did not travel in the Malay Archipelago. beg astern like hungry gulls, for-H. M. Tomlinson in Er. scraps. but wheeled shoot the bows, or manoeuvred close abeam like swallows at play. As a fact, think they were tired and wanted to rest, Once or twice they alighted on our bulwarks and went through some astonishing aerist acrobatics while their tiny webbed feet sought the awkward perch.
A TEMPORARY PET. After sundown one actually tried to alight on my head, while I stood in the dusk on the captain's bridge, watching its evolutions It swerved and stoop- ed so unexpectedly that I ducked, as one used to as the sound of one going over. But soon it alighted behind me and it made no more fuss about leing picked up than though it were a mag It WHE only, a lttle sick. but not over rat. and settled down on the palm of my hand.
A group of shipmates were feeding foxtrot records to gramophone below on a batch. where lamps made
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ed an eye at the gramophone ad took quiet stuck of the men who came round to stroke it. It accepted us all as quietly as though it had known us for years, and this was the usual routine.
It heard its mate later, or el-el our musical records were not to its taste. for it shook itself, dis consolately, waddled a little, and projected itself into the night.
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One night, when nearing the Laccadive Islands, in the Indian Ocean. the surgen brought to my cabin another visitor.
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blackbird. and of a uniform dark chocolate [colour. We could not identify-it.
and judged we had a rarity: there) was a brief hint of chloroform. which was immediately dismissed. for Captain Collister, of the s.s. Helenus, might have objected to any modern version of the Ancient Mariner's crime on his ship, even in the name of science. We enjoyed our guest in life till it was pleased to leave us.
Later, Mr. Moulton, of the Raffies Museum at Bingapore, showed me a rarity, one of the six specimens taken of Swinhoe's Fork-tailed Petrel. Our little friend of the Indian Ocean' was at once recognised and named, and his visit to our liner added something to our knowledge of his kind, for it was unknown that'