Show AT THE it crris ired 4 their Y ie to mw zelan L along the coast ot of new zealand ter tain rocky ere are the home ot of vast breeding colonie colonies ot at cormorants termed shagged shag gerles ea one ot of these Is rahma ilc ck near auckland and n big borit on the ornithology ot of new zealand sir NN falter alter duller buller describes how bow each ot of the cores scores of gnat great stia built nests contained two fledgling fledglings each swaying abing aying if its head from side to aide ide and squirting at the top 0 if voice to these I 1 impatient patient m young aters came the old bird birds up from the set with their flexible pouches beneath their bills distended by a weight ot of small fishes As soon ni as a parent thu thus laden alights upon the edge ot of tb the nest the young birde birds craning their necks almost to the point ot of dislocation scramble ramble Bc expectantly up beside her then the mother in a loving WAY ay opens wide her mandibles and the ills young shag with an impatient cultural guttural note thrusts his head right down th the parental throat and draws draw forth from the pouch after much fumbling about the first instalment installment of his dinner no sooner has he swall swallowed owea this thin than he be begins to call for more relating a hie brothers effort to take his tarn turn and coaxing his mother by ca ci reining her with his big beak in a very a amusing musing way As this sort of at thing Is going on in a hundred houses at once arid all the neighbors young ones are squawking squaw ling and squealing siu ealing while the old ones crow and struggle or im new nest lot in mater maternal mat ertil lal or unite units to mob some hated bawler baier or jager he the noise and turmoil are deafening and suggest something very different from the usual notion of domestic bird life |