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Albatross and Gulls

HE great world of wa-sweep of wing, the Albatross may appear ters, like the broad tracts to hover or to sail lazily along for hours of land, possess their together, almost without once moving its characteristic represen- wings. Found in the southern seas, it tatives of bird life which may follow ships for weeks, and its capappear adapted no less ture affords to weary voyagers a means of perfectly for the storm breaking the monotony of the slowly passand hurricane than for ing days and hours of life at sea. Only one egg is laid, and the young the summer calm of the azure sea.

If the eagle be monarch of the air in Albatross is covered with a beautiful one sense, and the lion king of the land in white down. The great wings of the full. another, the tropic birds, frigate birds and grown bird may measure fifteen feet in albatrosses, may be regarded as collect- their sweep, and, urged onwards by its ively the monarchs of the waves. Distin- great pinions, the Albatross defies the fury guished by its great heavy-hooked upper of the storm in the air, or rides placidly bill, and by its immense strength and on the billows.