THE CASSIN AUKLET. 913 
WE were taking the odlogical horizon of Dhuoyuatzachtahl, the famous 
Petrel island of the Quillayute Needles group, and had just repaired to the 
saw-grass area which crowns its crest when the professor held up a pale green 
ege three times larger than ordinary and modestly asked if that were a 
Petrel’s. ‘I should say not,” the bird-man cried; whereupon the professor 
returned to the burrow and drew forth the owner of the egg, a strange foreign- 
looking bird with leaden plumage above, white underparts and a gray-green 
Taken on Alexander Islet. Photo by the Author. 
CASSIN’S AUKLET, ADULT AND YOUNG. 
eye which blinked and stared like that of a Czech caught smuggling. It wasa 
Cassin Auklet, the “Iwoahlla” of which the Quillayutes had been telling us; 
and it was only in this random fashion that the bird was added to the list of 
the breeding sea fowl of the coast of Washington. 
The reason for previous oversight was not far to seek, for Cassin’s is an 
early bird. most of the burrows containing young on the 11th of June, 1907, 
while the Petrels were only beginning to lay. They are, moreover, desultory 
breeders, for fresh eggs may be found in burrows alongside of those contain- 
