THE 



WILSON BULLETIN 



NO. 66. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 



VOL. XXI MARCH, 1909. NO. I 



OLD SERIES VOL. XXI. NEW SEBIES VOL. XVI. 



JUNE WITH THE BIRDS OF THE WASHINGTON 



COAST. 



LYNDS JONES 



Carroll Islet had been the center of attraction from the be- 

 ginning of our plans, and here we expected to spend at least, 

 ■ a full week, weather permitting. Certain it is that a cozier 

 place to make camp and a more favorable place in which to 

 study the ocean birds in their home life it would be difficult to 

 find anywhere. At daybreak, with an orchestral background 

 of gull croakings, there trickled forth from the fringing brush 

 the exquisite song of the Western Winter Wren, and echoing 

 again beneath the canopy of spruce branches there pealed 

 forth the song of that prima donna in feathers, the Sooty Fox 

 Sparrow. Out of the great, hustling, jostling, dissatisfied 

 man-made world into this little Eden ! 



Second in point of numbers of the birds of Carroll Islet 

 comes 



TUFTED PUFFIN (Limda cirrhata.) 



The only places where this species was not present and nest- 

 ing were the rock precipices and the forested area, except, of 

 course, the ledges, which were wholly occupied by Murres and 

 Cormorants. Even the fringe of dense brush contained many 

 nests. It is well known that the typical nesting habit of these 

 birds is to find or make a burrow, usually among the rocks. 

 The most of such burrows observed seemed to have been 



