Jones — On Washington Coast Birds. 



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CALIFORNIA MURRE {U Ha troUc califomica.) 



Although probably fewer in numbers than the Puffins, the 

 Murres were not less interesting. As before noted, they occu- 

 pied two ledges, one jutting out landward as a narrow, naked 

 shoulder some seventy-five feet from the water, the other a 

 bordering ledge beneath the overhanging ocean side of the 



Carroll Islet. 



Figure 7 



California Murre (Uria truile califomica) . The outer part 

 of the shoulder ledge colony. 



island. The latter was the larger colony and the more difficult 

 of approach, and consequently was little studied. Some half- 

 dozen birds were sitting upon their eggs between the nests of 

 the White-crested Cormorant colony at the base of the clifif, 

 and one sitting bird was discovered, with its egg, in a small 

 cave half way up the Puffin slope. The accompanying pic- 

 tures will convey a better impression of the smaller of these 

 colonies than any word picture. However, it must be under- 

 stood that the picture shows less than a third of the birds 

 which were crowded upon this shoulder of rock when the birds 



