42 J THE NiIDOLOGIST 
footed Albatross followed the schooner all 
day, and these and an occasional Guadalupe 
Petrel and a few Phalaropes were the only 
birds seen during the day. Early on the 
morning of the seventeenth the helmsman 
sighted land through the fog and by noon we 
were anchored at the Mecca of the expedi- 
tion, Guadalupe Island. Three Albatross, 
probably the same ones that were with us 
on the 16th, followed the boat to within a 
mile or two of anchorage. Shortly after 
day-break Mr. Anthony saw a number of 
Pink-footed Shearwaters, Puffinus creato- 
pus, and as we neared the island two Jae- 
gers probably S. /ongicaudus, and a Royal 
Tern flew past. An inquisitive Farallone 
Cormorant and an immature Western Gull 
flew out from the rocks to meet us. Going 
ashore in the afternoon we found Guada- 
lupe House Finches and Guadalupe Rock 
Wrens abundant almost to the water’s 
edge, and around the stone houses near the 
beach a few /unco insularis were seen. A 
Great Blue Heron flew along the shore and 
once or twice during the afternoon the cry 
of a Wandering Tattler was heard from the 
rocks. One or two lonely Gulls and Cor- 
morants find a roosting place on some small 
out-lying rocks near the landing. Late in 
the afternoon Mr. Anthony went to the top 
of the island and stayed there over night 
in hopes of seeing the three or four Guada- 
lupe Caracaras which the goat-hunters 
informed us were in the habit of gathering 
around the carcasses of the goats killed at 
the camp. ‘These three or four individuals 
are probably the only remaining representa- 
tives of this isolated species, Polyborus 
lutosus. 
‘‘Under the head of September 18, my 
note-book says: ‘Jim and I went to the 
pines over the worst trail I ever climbed,’ 
a truthful entry, if indeed the route over 
which we travelled had any right to be 
called a trail. Carpodacus amplus and Sal- 
punctes guadaloupensis were abundant all 
the way from the beach to the summit of 
the ridge. The latter species were remark- 
ably tame. A noteworthy fact is that all 
of the birds peculiar to the island are so 
tame that some will occasionally attempt 
to alight on the barrel of the gun aimed for 
their destruction. A single W’n. Red- 
tail circled tar out from behind the hill near 
the top of the island and soared away to the 
southward. During our four days’ stay at 
the island this species was occasionally 
noted. As we entered the timber the 
dainty sweetness of the Dusky Kinglet’s 
song came to us from an oak and the 
peculiar call of Sztta canadensis was heard 
from among the pines. A few Guadalupe 
Juncos were seen at this point, but through 
my ignorance of the timber growth we did 
not go far enough down the ridge to find 
either this species in abundance, or the 
resident Crossbill, Loxza curvirostra strick- 
landi. A pair of Sparrow Hawks, probably 
Falco sparverius deserticolus, were in the 
possession of a dead pine at the top of the 
ridge. This species was found to be present 
upon the island in about the same numbers 
as the Red-tail. Mr. Anthony returned 
from the cypress grove and goat camp with- 
out having seen a Caracara. In the cypress 
grove he caught a glimpse of a bird which 
had the appearance of Pzpzlo Consobrinus 
and as it afterward proved, this was our 
only record of this species. Regarding the 
Petrels which breed on the island, the 
hunters told us that while doing some 
stone work in the region of the Petrel 
colony, they had found two different spe- 
cies. They described the Guadalupe Petrel 
and an entirely black one, which together 
with a wing found on the trail to the cypress 
forest makes it appear that O. homochroa 
is an inhabitant of this island. A large 
Hawk, Falco peregrinus anatum (2), was 
seen around the cliffs near the anchorage on 
September 19. In examining a number of 
stomachs of Carpodacus amplus we found 
that its principal article of food was goats’ 
tallow and seeds of foxtail. Indeed the 
goat-hunters told us that these birds would, 
if opportunity offered, consume fifty pounds 
of tallow a day. Making due aliowance 
for the exaggeratiof and the number of 
birds, we must still conclude that each bird 
would eat more than its own weight in 
tallow a day. 
“On the 20th, I visited the cypress forest 
while Mr. Anthony and my brother went 
to the northern limit of the pines. They 
found the Mexican Crossbill common and 
the island Junco abundant. Inthe cypress 
Carpodacus, Salpinctes and Regulus were 
abundant and Juncos common. One Guada- 
lupe Flicker was shot and a single Nut- 
hatch heard. Around the cliffs at the 
northern edge of the grove a number of 
White-throated Swifts were dashing through 
theair. Late in the afternoon I started for 
the beach without even seeing tke principal 
object of the day’s hunt, a Caracara. But 
scarcely hadI been gone two minutes when 
