Identifier: ForeststreamXXIIA (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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s allowable,first poised on one wing and then on the othei-, it is appar-ently propelled without an effort on its part, but simply bythe action of the wind beneath. This method of flight, how-ever, is frequently varied, for when necessary the hagdoncan and does move its wings with gieat power and consider-able rapidity. When in pursiut of* food it plunges suddenlydown into the water, striking on its breast with great vio-lence, and in a manner quite different from that in whichgulls alight. Its method of diving is also different from thatof many other species. It never plunges head first into thewater as do the gannet. kingfisher, and many other piscivor-ous birds; but it first alights upon the surface, a& just noted,disappearing almost instantly. It is an active swimmer tMr. Eidgway tells me that P. major is found as far south as CapeHorn or vicinitv. , . ,„,.„„, JOur position at that time was latitude 4.S 10; longitude 02= <!<!, Dec. 4, 1884.1 FOREST AND STREAM. cS68
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HAG FISHING. under water, and when in pursuit of food passes rapidly fromone object to another, provided it cannot eat the first thingwhich attracts its attention. When the hagdon finds foodagreeable to its taste, it immediately rises to the surface andhastily swallows the morsel, if it is not too large. This man-ner of eating is necessary as a matter of self-protection, for ifthe bird delays swallowing its food, it will soon have to dis-pute its right of possession with its companions. It is a common occurrence for a number of these birds tochase a boat for half an hour or more at a time, diving?ike a flash, every few minutes, after the bubbles made by(he oars, which these winged rangers seem to imagine some•iind of food beneath the surface of the water. Nor will re-peated failures discourage them in making these attempts.They will also persistently follow a dory from which a trawlis being set, and divingin the wake of the boat, alter thesinking gear, make desperate endeavors to te

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