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Ptychomorphus alenticus. Burrows everywhere. Found
one with nest in crevice where bird could be seen from
outside. [In front of the keepers' houses there are
a great many dead which have struck the telephone wires
at night.]
Larus occidentalis. By thousands on crest and
northwest parts and on Maintop, where young were
seen at the very top. On the northwest part they
hovered over me by thousands while I was passing
through a low level place where their young were
abundant. Found several nests with two and three
incubated eggs. The minute cormorants or murres leave
their nests the rascally gulls are down breaking and
eating eggs. The gulls keep up a continual calling,
and when one gets in their nesting quarters they also
make an angry clucking note, very often swooping
at one at the same time. Saw one or two adults with
banded tails, but no brown young.
Phalacrocorax penicillatus. A very large colony on
northeast side, nests about two feet apart.
One nest with two similar eggs and one about 1/3 natural size.
Another colony on northwest corner near Arch Rock,
and still another colony on southwest corner. No
young yet. Adults losing head filaments. Four eggs laid.
Phalacrocorax pelagicus. Here and there on cliffs
high up. Fair reports eggs in some nests. No large colonies.
Phalacrocorax auritus. Colony of perhaps a hundred near
summit of Maintop. With young, some well feathered, others in
black down. One egg seen, perhaps added. Saw gull pursue adult
Dolichotis obsoletus. Common on east and west ends. Two or three sparrows[c]?