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Contributed by Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library.
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(Morse's Mill)
but did not disable its wings
yet it seemed unable to quire
from the water. On my
approach it dived repeatedly,
using its wings for propulsion
under the water. The sun
showed half me on it, and as
the air clung to the plumage
it looked like a ball of
silver flying through the
water as a bird does in air.
On the surface it paddled along
very much like a Phalarope.
The flesh was dark colored and
tough and smell fishy. The
inside of the skin looked as if it
might be some small wrasse
being unlike that of any other
Ocean I have seen in appearance