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 50 THE CONDOR Vol. XVIII tributions from their lunch baskets, but there was nothing like the feast of heretofore. At lunch time the workmen about the courts were surrounded by a hungry horde which begrudged each mouthful that disappeared down Fig. 15. GULLS CONGREGATED ON THE MARINA human throats, and was not satisfied with the crumbs that fell to its share. Accustomed as they had grown to associating food with the presence of human beings the slortening supply at the Exposition grounds drove the gulls to the idea of following up the people, and before long the birds were to be noticed Fig. 16. A BATH IN A RAINWATER POOL as frequent visitors to the parks which are so numerously scattered about San Francisco, where people not only shared their lunches with them but many deliberately took out household scraps to feed them. While the gulls have