Indian State Railways Magazine March 1937

A feeling of expectation of something likely to happen always accompanied the exit through the lagoon channel with the roar of the surf on either side and the sight of the swiftly moving mosaic floor of the reef crystal clear below the boat. [...] The purpose of these plates in the jaws of the whale or of the horny lamellae on the beaks of duck geese and flamingoes is the same. [...] Large quantities of water are taken into the mouth ; the whale expels the water through the corners of its mouth : the birds expel it from the edges of the beak. [...] The hairy edged plates in the jaws of the whale and the horny lamellae in the beak of the birds both function as a sieve through which the water flows and by which its food contents are held back and retained. [...] The doubts A BREEDING COLONY OF FLAMINGOES IN THE RANN OF CUTCH were dispelled by the discovery of a breeding colony in the deserts of the Bann of Cutch.