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ANSERES.—PELECANIDÆ.

actuated by a desire to possess the fish, for if the Gull had time to swallow it, no resentment was manifested. Apparently the sight of the fish created a desire of possession, which ceased when it had disappeared.[1]

  1. Ornith. Dict. 102.