142 Poachers and Poaching. 



surface with the rapidity of a fish. The time 

 of haunting the land was during the breeding 

 season, in early summer. At this period the 

 auk resorted to the rocks, in the dark recesses 

 of which the females deposited one large egg- 

 large even for the size of the bird. These had 

 a whitish-green ground, streaked with brown, 

 and nearly five inches in length. 



