While some of the black-browed or spectacled albatrosses nest among tlie penguins on top of 

 West Point Island, many of the birds prefer to build on the cliffs where they can drop into the air as 

 they step from the nest. On the overhanging cliffs a hundred feet or more above the tempestuous sea 

 several night herons also were seen 



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Crested and teal ducks, and the brant and upland geese swim about togctlier \vi41 within camera 

 range in some ponds on Bleaker Island 



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