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Identifier: youngnimrodsinno00knox (find matches)
Title: The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers

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NEST OF A GULL. FIGHTING WITH THE SEA-BIRDS. 269 —• •; hM.
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nest till the hunter is within a fe\vfeet of her; then she screams andrises into the air, and the screamgenerally brings up hundreds orthousands of others. They fly•around the hunter and come dis-agreeably near to his face, and,while they are above him, he g-ets •J O a drenching of fresh and dry guanothat is anything but pleasant. The gulls get through breeding much sooner than the other birds,and then they devote themselves to eating up the eggs of their rivals.They follow closely on the heels of an egger, and sometimes when he hasuncovered a nest they rush in and seize the eggs while he has his handextended to gather them. When a gull takes an egg in this way, she HIUD-EGGING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. 270 THE YOUNG NIMRODS. flies upward, and as she does so she breaks the shell, devours what shecan catch in her beak at a gulp, and allows the rest of the contents to fallupon the man beneath. The free bath of raw eggs does not improve hisappearance nor his temper, and some of the hunters

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