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could not find a crevice large enough to hide their whole bodies 

 they would be satisfied with hiding their heads and covering 

 their eyes. They grew rapidly and their homes became very foul 

 smelling abodes for the parents appeared to keep them well 

 supplied with an abundance of food which consisted mainly of 

 the common brittle shelled clam, Siliqua patula Dixon, and 

 often when I climbed to their nests I found their runways 

 strewn with numbers of partially eaten representatives of this 

 species in different stages of decomposition. 



Photo by J. D. Sayre 

 Nest and Eggs of Glaucous Winged Gull. 



Larus canus brachyrhynchus Rich. Short-billed Gull. 



Numbers of this species were among the thousands of 

 specimens of gulls to be seen about Kashvik Bay during the 

 latter half of August. A specimen in immature plumage was 

 taken August 23d. 



Larus Philadelphia (Ord.). Bonaparte Gull. 



About the first of August large flocks of this gull appeared 

 about the rich feeding grounds of Kashvik Bay. Several 

 specimens were taken on the second of August. 



