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the nesting place being high in the mountains in the vicinity of 

 Pavlof Bay. Some eggs were obtained from birds collected, but 

 one egg was found on the bare lava rock, from which the bird 

 was flushed. The egg, as described by John E. Thayer (1914), 

 is not white, as had been reported, but "has a ground color of 

 olive lake, dotted all over with different-sized markings of dark 

 and light brown. Two others, taken from the oviduct of birds 

 May 29, 1913, had a ground color of yellow glaucous, with dark 

 brown spots over the whole egg." 



More recently, the species was found breeding at Wales, Alaska, 

 on July 10, 1934, by an Eskimo, who sent the skin (of an incubat- 

 ing female) to the Chicago Academy of Sciences. The next year, 

 on June 29, the Eskimo obtained an egg. Edward R. Ford (1936) 

 described the egg as having "the ground color of the Xantus 

 murrelet egg figured as No. 6 on PI. 49 of Bent's 'Diving Birds 

 of North America'. The markings are similar too, in character, 

 but in color are black or very dark brown. In shape it is exactly 

 like the Marbled Murrelet's egg shown as No. 5 on PI. 48 of the 

 same work." 



There is one other record, not in an ornithological journal, 

 but in a paper-covered pamphlet published by Rev. Bernard R. 



Figure 34. — Kittlitz's murrelet beside its egg. (Photo by Bernard Hubbard.) 



