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were divided into two distinct types, large nests and small 

 nests. 1 shall describe the larger type first. 



The large nests were found on the sandy stretches of bottom. 

 A good conception of their appearance can be gained from 

 the photographs shown in Figures 1 and 2. They are crater 

 like depressions in the sand at the bottom of which were coarse 

 sand or pebbles and sometimes a large solid object, such as a 



Figure 2. Three large nests exposed on characteristic bottom, 

 in center adjoins that of a nest to the left. 



Rim of nest 



half of a clam shell or a piece of wood that had happened to be 

 buried at the point selected. The depressions were sometimes 

 circular but more often oval. The length of the largest nests 

 measured was thirty-six inches across the top and their width 

 twenty-seven inches. Some of the nests were twenty-five 

 inches by thirty inches and a few were as small as eighteen 

 by twenty inches. The depth of the nests averaged three 

 inches. This, however, depended upon the amount of sand 



