THE KAEDING PETREL. 



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Authorities. — Bailey (Mrs. F. AI.), Handbook Birds AW U. S. (1902), 



P- 37- 



Specimens. — ( U. of W.) Prov. D. 



SO far as we know, tliis diminuti\-e sea-farer is the only one of tlie 

 Tnbinares, the ocean wanderers, to make its liome with ns ; and even so, it is 

 only by stealth and upon some desolate wave-worn rock that nur hospitality 

 is accepted. 



During the course of a reconnaissance of our coastal islands, the 

 Olympiades, undertaken in July. i<;or>, I encounteretl four nesting colonies of 

 these innocuous foam-tlutterers : but because their burrows are so inconspicu- 

 ous and tlieir habits so secretixe, it may easily chance that as many more were 

 overlooked. 



The most populous colony was found upon Dhuovuatzachtahl, an islet 

 of the group 

 known as the 

 O u i 1 1 a }' u t e 

 Needles. 

 The name is 

 a Ouillayu- 

 t a n CO m- 

 ])onntl mean- 

 i n g R o c k- 

 w here - w e 

 catch-Petrels. 

 and has been 

 from time 

 immemorial 

 a breeding 

 place of 

 these tiny 

 Tube-noses. 



On July Taken on E,,n. 

 20th, 1906, YV THI-: I-:XD OF THE PhrRHI.'S BURROW. 



three of us 



in company with two expert Indian surfmen. set otT in a canoe from 

 La Push to visit this rock a mile offshore. The sea was fairly quiet and 

 the sky perfect, but the swells crashed and roared about the base of the 

 rocks, and landing with cameras was a difficult operation. Once ashore, 

 we were obliged to scuttle between waves to a point where alone it was 

 possible to scale the rock. 



The islet is about a hundred feet high, precipitous upon three sides, but 



Fliolo by the Author. 



