in the latter part of the season a; hly smaller. Mi*. C. Barlow also states 



that ;i numbers any of the birds inhabiting tin- Faral- 



lon; they nest on the cliffs in rookeries, usually near tho summits of the pi 

 For years their eggs have been collected for the San Francisco markets where tm-y 

 are used by bakeries in the manufacture of all kinds of pastry.* According to Mr. 

 Bryant the number of eggs marketed for the last few years has averaged from one 

 hundred and eighty thousand to two hundred and twenty-eight thousand. In 1886 

 two men who were left on Sugar Loaf, collected one hundred and eight thoi. 

 eggs. The Western Gull, l.<iru* on-'uhntali*, is another enemy of this Murre; it 

 carries off and devours both eggs and young. So it would seem that the chances 

 for the Mum' to rear its young and launch them into the deep, blue sea, where they 

 can take care of themselves, are not very favorable, yet these birds are found in 

 countless numbers on the islands of the Pacific coast. Mr. Bryant, in his excellent 

 paper.f says: "The gulls pick a Murre's egg up bodily and carry it away in their ca- 

 pacious mouth, but do not stick their bill into it to get hold, as is stated by some 

 rs, whose observations must have referred to the eggs already broken by the 

 gulls or eggers." This species lays a single pear-shaped egg on the bare rock, often 

 on the narrow shelves of cliffs, where the bird has just room enough to sit, and if un- 

 molested will rear two or three young in a season. Like the eggs of the last 

 species, they show a wonderful diversity of color and markings; the ground color is 

 white, buff, greenish of several shades, yellowish, and cinnamon. They are either 

 or- blotched or streaked with zigzag markings of brown and black. They 

 rom 3.50 to 354 long by 1.90 to 2.05 broad; occasionally as small as 2.05 in 

 length by 1.4.". in breadth. Mr. II. A. Taylor says: "The California Murre, the repre- 

 sentative birds of the islands, lay their colored, pear-shaped eggs on bare rock on the 

 ;>est crags, in caves and almost everywhere, save on the few low flats near the 

 shore, where many Western Culls choose to build their nests of coarse Farallon 

 1 in the hollow spaces under certain boulders the Pigeon Guillemot lays her 

 two eggs."* 



31. BBUNNICH'S MURRE. Vrto hmina (Linn.) Geog. Dist. Coasts and 



la of i lie Xortli Atlantic and Eastern Arctic Ocean, south on the Atlantic coast 

 of North \v Jersey. Breeding from the (lull of St. Lawrence north- 



ward. 



:>] habits and characteristics as the common 



Murre, t'rin /;,//,. Its distribution in the breeding season is about the same, and 

 MKnishable. It is an abundant bird on the islands of the North 

 Atla: Mil now. for Hi" fit id this bird to the avifauna of Oh- 



allTC by Mr. H. T. Stewart in a field near 



Dber r.uh. ISJu;. Th- bird was kindly id.-uti- 



nit Curator of I'.irds in the National 



..ve of these birds was scattered, by a storm which oc- 



out the a I-;. L. MOS- !> report! two pecimena IMMHK 



shot at I'ut-i! two at Saudusky on December Huh. 



PALLAS'S MURRE. 1'rin Immin n;t (Pall.) Geog. Dist. Coast and 

 h Pacific ami \rctic Ocean. 



bird" of the North Pacific, swarming at its breeding places on the 

 ids. Its habits and nesting are the same as those 



of the for- ",K larger. 3.21\ 



T I. p. 38. 



<> m the PnrnlloT, 

 Trip to the Farallona" In Thr NldoloRlst. Vol. I, pp. 17-19. 



