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Makey
1960
Catharacta macrorhyncha
making last round. Bird was noticed
standing hunched in nest bowl. I
thought it sick as it seemed inflated
in feathers ruffled up. As I watched
I saw something drop from it
Cloaca, I stepped nearer + it
flew, when we spied the egg covered
w/ copious mucous. This was pr 25
+ the bird which laid egg had red
band on left leg (thermoplate) + no
aluminum band
10 birds at bathing place on ocean
Nov. 21 At Precipice this day. There is a small
moraine on the S. side of the glacier,
a small area of rocks & rubble in
piles & ridges which remind one of
mine tailings or areas in the strip
mine country of Illinois. The
moraine measures about 100 yd
across & perhaps 300 yds long at
its shaped and might be 7-8
acres in area. Don Douglas counted
12 nest sites + territorial pairs in his
wandering one. It trying to scare
birds to my noose. He did not
cover the moraine top of the area so
the total population might have