THE KAEDING PETREL. 873 
Authorities.—Bailey (Mrs. F. M.), Handbook Birds W. U. S. (1902), 
1S SVs 
Specimens.—(U. of W.) Prov. D. 
SO far as we know, this diminutive sea-farer is the only one of the 
Tubinares, the ocean wanderers, to make its home with us; and even so, it is 
only by stealth and upon some desolate wave-worn rock that our hospitality 
is accepted. 
During the course of a reconnaissance of our coastal islands, the 
Olympiades, undertaken in July, 1906, I encountered four nesting colonies of 
these innocuous foam-flutterers; but because their burrows are so inconspicu- 
ous and their habits so secretive, it may easily chance that as many more were 
overlooked. 
The most populous colony was found upon Dhuoyuatzachtahl, an islet 
of the group 
known as the 
Ouillayute 
INgexencdalkess: 
The name is 
a Quillayu- 
ipgeim (©) i00e 
pound mean- 
ing Rock- 
where - we 
catch-Petrels, 
and has been 
from time 
immemorial 
a __ breeding 
piace tort 
these tiny 
Tube-noses. 
Opie i uilisvarraventen erin Photo by the Author. 
20th, 106, AT THE END OF THE PELREL’S BURROW. 
three of us 
in company with two expert Indian surfmen, set off 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 
