Identifier: birdnotesns04fore (find matches)
Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club

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er parts from breast white. The billand naked facial skin being either greenish white or verypale flesh colour. About 10 a.m. we passed a large rocky island, andthen, for a time the number of Gulls and Gannets decreaseduntil noon, when they returned in force again while the shipwas passing the twelve apostles. A white Gannet withblack quills seen—Sula cyamops? About 6 p.m. we passedbetween a lighthouse rock and a large island, called, I believe,Sabel Zukker. March 25th. Reached Aden afjout 11 a.m. Beforewe bounded the corner we had only been followed by a fewimmaiture Larus cbffinis, but the harbour was full of Gulls.These were all either Larus affinis or Larus hemprichi.The Sooty Gull is very strictly protected in Aden harbour andis consequently very numerous and fearless. This Gull isdusky brown except for the breast, underparts, tail, and rump,which arc white; the wing is also edged with white owing tothe quills being tipped with that colour. In breeding plumage r>ii;i. NoTKS.
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llfni;u-icirs (lull (/.urns /,r>n/>rn/, I Bird No.frs from Tnrslr to Bnmhay. 177 —already assumod hy ininy of tlio hirds in Aden harbonr—the head becomes a da kcr fliocolato brown and there is awhite collar. Tlioy flow so close to the ships rail while wewere at anchor flia! 1 tried to i hotoirraph them but the resiiltsare not worth i-ciirnductioii. Many Kites, Milvus rrgifpficxis,come out from the shore and mingle with the gulls, and on aformer voyage I rescued one that had fallen into the sea.Several Terns came to the ship attracted by the swarms ofsmall fish that always collect round the hull—they wereall of one species but not in full plumage and I failed toidentify the species. It was probably the smaller CrestedTern Sterna media. Only a single Booby seen to-day andthat in the harbour. Mareh 2()th. (Arabian Sea); no land in sight all day.I only saw one bird and that a great distance off—it was ap-parently a White Ganret. A Seagull was reported to me,*but I did not se

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