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Show TAME WILD BEASTS. WONDERFUL INSTANCES FROM ISLANOS WHERE LIFF. If PHOTECTEO They Are In No Danger and 8eem to Reallie It and Show No Fear of Man at All Thai wild animal ueromi itremiy tame la well known The wild quail of Miulhern California will eut. r gir-delta gir-delta and neat theie and In the piuieet-d piuieet-d Boaaon I hate aeii a flm k aland In n country road, a Jaunty main hi tween them, and my home not !t fe"t nway j motlng only whon I moved tin I then with leliictatice, aaya a writer In tho Scientific American Several veara ago aotite realdenta on one of the channel lalauda of aouih rn California Introdured 11 nuiiilH , of black tailed deer, which were prelect ed to audi tin extent that In time they unentered that they were prltlleged character and uaaitmed nearly Ihe nb (oluto contempt for human beluga hold by tho ancretl bulla of India that crowd men and women from the road They pcralitod In entering gurdena day and night, destroying the plant, and finally to locnlo them Ihe duellers on tho Island had Ml fastened to them One buck mndn his homo near the town of Cabrltlo and walked about th place and over the hills with the freedom of a dog. When a boat land ed off tho pier tho buck ran down to greet the newcomers and aharo their lunch nnd became n welcome guest at barbecues and lobster and clam bakes. Nearly all animal llfo Is protected at this Istind I liivo counted hall a hundred hun-dred bald oiglea In an platen mllo run, hate soeii them toko n largo llsh rrom the wnler within enty gunshot nnd the build their nests on pinnacles tint nro not difficult of approach Tho sei birds aro equilly lame, (lulls gather In Hocks n few foot rrom Ihoso who food Idem In tho winter flocks of rormonints swim Into the haa and are m tamo thnt they merely dltldo when a IkmI inaeo and llabermeii often Mud that the cormorants take off bait nlmrMt ns fast its they can put It on (lulls dish ut bait nnd I hnte seen a long winged bird resembling tho petrel follow my line under water nt a cast, tiling Ita wlnga to tly along and tnke tho bait und nt time Hcorea of en birds nro seen tnihoru feeding up on small shrimps, paying no attention to obiertera photographing them Tho most remarkable llliislrntlon nt lameness to bo een hero Is that of tho sea lions Tor nge tho nnlmnls hato hold possession of a mass of rocka on tho horo of tho Islands A fow yoara ago many wero killed In- tandnla. but law a wero passed and for a number of eors tho sea lions hnte been protected protect-ed and tho rookery has Increased In size until n split hat recently occurred and nnother settlement haa been C(-tnbllshod C(-tnbllshod halfway up tho Island. It hni been tho custom for )enra for fluhormon In cleaning their fish to toss the refueo Into Ihe bay nnd the sea linns formed the hnblt of coming down to the bay at this tlmo to dlno thereupon there-upon At first only ono or two camo; now a blind of two hrge bulls and several sev-eral females mnko Ihclr hoadqunrtcra at tho bay to spend most of their tlmo there, commuting n valuable, sanitary corps, ns they eat otery fragment of fish, tho gulls Joining In Iho feast When not reeding tho sen lions pisi tha tlmo lying within n raw fret of tho beach, sleeping or playing, tho females and jottng leaping from tho water and going through various tricks or Interest Inter-est to tho looker-on. Hut n fow feet nwny from tho sea lions nro tho boat stands or tho fish ermen and boatmen nnd boita aro motlng out and over tho tea lions constant!), yet they nro apparently oblivious ob-livious to the men. who never molest them This haa had n peculiar result Tha itifrmous animal, hate become so tamo tljt they almost allow iho men to touch them nnd readily come out upon the shore lo leed rrom their hands It so happened that I was upon up-on the (amis when no sea lions wero In dght. and upon asking n boatman where thoy wero ho began to whlstlo as though colling ror n dog and to call "Here. Hen'" repeating tho call seternl times, whereupon nut rrom among tho anchored boats appeared not only lien but two large bull sea linns, which must huto weighed hall n ton |