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VOL. XVII. NO. 8. ALBION, N. Y., SEPT.-OCT., 1900. 



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The Oologist. 



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A Day on De Cicheo Island, 



BY B. S. BOWDISH. 



What collector, whose observation 

 has been more less confined to birds 



rather solitary in their nidification, has 

 not felt his nerves tingle with respon- 

 sive sympathy, as he read the account 

 of the visit of some fellow collector to 

 the island home of the gregarious sea 

 birds, and has not longed for the time 

 to come when he too might realize this 

 novel experience. 



This then was my experience when 

 with my Company I came to Aguad- 

 illa to relieve H Co. Standing on the 

 west shore of Porto Rico, in front of 

 this little town one allows his gaze to 

 wander across the expanse of rippling 

 waves where twenty miles away in the 

 usually lazy atmosphere indistinctly 

 rise the rugged outlines of a rocky islet. 

 This is DeCicheo. 



Enquiries regarding this island re- 

 vealed that it was uninhabited by man, 

 save by transient fishing parties, and 

 that it was the home of myriad water 

 fowl- Eagerly peering through a rath- 

 er unreliable telescope, the property of 

 one of the Co. members, went far to 

 confirm the latter part of this informa- 

 tion, revealing a maze of birds winding 

 and circling in the hazg with which the 

 island was enveloped. Thus it may be 

 easily imagined that from an indefinite 

 wish there came to be gradually matur- 

 ing plans in my mind for an invasion 

 of this ornithological paradise. From 

 the beginning it seemed that in devel- 

 oping thes3 plans I constantly encoun- 

 tered obstacles, but passing over these 

 after much persistent effort, on the ev- 

 ening of June 23d, at 10:30 I found my- 

 self seated in the stern of a staunch 

 little twenty-foot one-master, and tiller 

 in hand I guided the small craft away 

 into the uncertain gloom that the twin- 

 kling stars did little to relieve, the two 



