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 4o TIlE CONDOR VOL. IX supply was exhausted or tie mother thought he had enough, she began slowly to rise and struggle to regain her upright position. The youngster was loath to come out aud flapping his wings, he tried in every way to hold on as she began shaking back and forth. The mother shook arouud over ten or twelve feet of ground till she literally swung the young bird off his feet aud sent him sprawling over on the dry tules. For a few moments the youngster lay dazexl, then as if coming to his senses, he seemed to go raving mad. I never saw such an apparent show of temper in anythiug but a badly spoiled child. Fie whirled around once or twice, grasping his oxvu wing in his bill, shaking and biting it. Then seeiug one or two other youug birds standing near, he plunged headlong at them, jabbiug right and left with his beak, while t.hey rapidly retreated out of his way. By that time the wrath of the youngster seemed speut, for he fell sprawled-out, and soon went sound asleep in the sun. It is surprising to -- see the size of a fish a pelican can handle. In watchiug among the rookeries of youug . -, pelicans, I have often i- seen the old birds o bring iu fish from  eight to teu inches in length, for they Seeln to handle such a size with apparent ease. But I have also seeu lake trout eighteeu iuches in length that have been brought in by the old pelicaus. Whether these big fish were caught alive by the old birds or just picked up dead, YOUNG I'ELICAN, PANTING ItP. OI 'file HEAT I do not know; but if a pelican gobbles dowu a live fish of that size, I judge the bird would feel very like a dog being wagged by his tail. The white pelicau is a striking mark ou the water and is very stately in flight. Vhile cruis:'ng tile broad lakes we were often deceived when the water was calm by thinking a white pelicau was the distant sail of a boat. There is something so ntisleading in the reflection and the shape of one of these birds wheu it is floatiug in the starlight far out on the surface of the water. At such a time a flock of them will look, for all the world, like a squadrou of white war-ships. It was a daily habit where the birds were nesting, for then to take au aerial promenade each tooruing. After returniug from the fishing grounds and lounging about the uests for a while, the pelicaus began to circle over the colony in a large company, rising higher and higher till they were almost lost in the blue. By watching we could occasionally see the faint flashes of white as the snowy breasts reflected a gleam of the sun. For hours the sky would glitter with these great