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Not explored, but known to harbor: 

 R. Tufted Puffin, 50.0. R. Baird Cormorant. 200. 



R. Glaucous-winged Gull, 100. R. Black Oystercatcher, 1 pair. 



The Giants' Graveyard. 



Loc— Lat. 47° 50' 30" N.; Long. 124° 34'; offshore 100 yards to | mile. 



Desc. — A group of jagged rocks and pinnacles, some nineteen in number, 

 rising from 40 to 150 feet above tide, and representing the last stages of 

 erosion of a Miocene sandstone set on edge. It is impossible to exaggerate 

 the sharpness or sheerness of some of these headstones but even the wildest , 

 if high enough, affords lodgment for the Gulls and the Baird Cormorants; 

 while the bases of the largest all boast their pair of Black Oystercatchers. 

 Only one rock deserves particular mention: 



Ghost Rock. — The northernmost of the group, very bold in outline, 

 higher than wide and narrowing at base. This rock is everywhere white 

 with excrement and is entirely given over to the nesting of cormorants. 

 R. White-crested Connorant, 50. R. Baird Cormorant, 100. 



The Quillayute Needles. 



Loc— Lat. 47° 33' 4" N.; Long. 124° 39' W.; offshore 100 yards to 1 

 mile. 



Combined areas, 4 or 5 acres. 



Desc. — An exceedingly picturescjue group of rocks off Tealwhit Head, 

 each possessed of .strong individuality, whether pinnacle, oval, sugar-loaf, 

 or flat-top, and each distinguished by appropriate Indian (Quillayute) 

 names, which ought as far as possible to be retained. 



Dhuoyuatzachtahl (Place-where-we-catch-Petrels) or Dhuoyuatz (Petrel) 

 for short. — The western of two distinct islets, kmiped on the chart (Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, No. 6400) as "Huntington Rock," has a height of 

 over 100 feet and an area of above an acre; is perpendicular on W., N. and 

 E., sloping and climbable on S. E. Crest covered with dense coarse "saw- 

 grass" with surrounding border of tm-f. 



R. Tufted Puffin, 300. R. Western Gull, 10. 



R. Cassin Auklet, 500. R. Kaeding Petrel, 40,000. 



R. Glaucous-winged Gull, 10. R. Baird Cormorant, 20. 



Keeksoostahl ("Landing-place," no longer appropriate). — Companion to 

 last on the east; of practically equal area; nearly inaccessible. 

 R. Tufted Puffin, 500. R. Baird Cormorant, 100. 



R. Glaucous-winged Gull, 200. Kaeding Petrel, ? 



R. Western Gull, 6. 



An inaccessible colony of Glaucous-winged Gulls also appears upon Table 

 Rock, 75 yards or so due south of Keeksoostahl. 



