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Dat's what am doin' it." "O, a frigate-bird!" said Ben Brace, recognising in Snowball's synonyme one of the most noted wanderers of the ocean, the Pelicanus aquila of the naturalists, but which, from its swift flight and graceful form, is better known to mariners under the appellation given to it by Snowball. "Where away?" interrogated the sailor. "I don't see bird o' any sort. Where away, Snowy?"
Plumed Egret MESOPHOYX PLUMIFERA. White Egret HERODIAS TIMORIENSIS. White-fronted Heron NOTOPHOYX NOVAE-HOLLANDIAE. Reef Heron DEMIEGRETTA SACRA. Little Mangrove Bittem BUTORIDES STAGNATILIS. Yellow-necked Mangrove Bittem DUPETOR GOULDI. Lesser Frigate Bird FREGATA ARIEL Pelican PELICANUS CONSPICILLATUS. Black-throated Grebe PODICIPES NOVAE-HOLLANDIAE.
It was too late to send me back; for I was instantly seized by a company of pretty young animals, the very reverse in appearance of the preacher-monkeys of the Propaganda; they all seemed to find in me a kindred soul: my master was ushered into the cabinet, and I was left with my new acquaintance, who were called "attachés," but whom I at once classed with the secretary-birds, while here and there, I thought, was mingled among them a specimen of the booby, or Pelicanus Sula.
Then, however, the problem received its solution; and the play of the Pelicanus aquila was at length explained. It was no play on the part of the unfortunate bird, but a case of involuntary and fearful captivity.
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