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Behle
1934.
South Farallon Island
April 13
With a party of 16, members of the U.C.
Entomology club left San Francisco at
7:00 P.M. on U.S. Navy tug "Undaunted"
Weather windy, cloudy and cold, water
rough. Arrived at islands about 10:20
No restrictions were placed on us except collecting
and we wandered pretty much over the
entire place for two hours and then
were shown through the various power
plants, radio station and the light
house.
The nesting season in general was
just starting and not all the birds
that nest on the islands were seen.
Rock Wrens were common on the
islands being chiefly near the dwellings
and on the rocky slopes up toward the
light house. One I saw for an instance
appeared to be in juvenile plumage.
Two sparrows probably Savannah
Sparrows were seen on the island.
Western gulls were of course the most
abundant birds and numbered thousands.
They had not started nesting or
egg laying and gave no indication
even of having paired off. At
least a dozen dead ones were
found and one was found on