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the latter attain an amazing speed when pitching from the top of the islands 
when released from the hand, the falcons overtake them with the greatest ease 
and continue to slaughter, after their hunger has been appeased, for the mere 
fun of it. This is perhaps why the auklets visit the colonies only after nightfall. 
Winter—tThe fall migration is not well marked, and probably the 
winter home of this auklet is not far from its breeding grounds, as 
it apparently spends the winter at sea throughout most of its summer 
range. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Breeding range.—Pacific coast, from Lower California (Cerros, 
San Benito, San Geronimo, San Martin, Todos Santos, and Los 
Coronados Islands) northward to southern Alaska (Forrester Island, 
Egg Island, 200 miles west of Fort Wrangell and Sanak Islands) 
and the Aleutian Islands (Atkha Island). North of California it 
is somewhat local in its distribution. 
Winter range.—The open sea in the vicinity of its breeding places 
at least as far north as Washington (Puget Sound). 
Casual records.—It is said that a specimen taken in Kamtschatka 
is in the Berlin Museum. 
Egg dates—Farallone Islands: 64 records, April 3 to July 20; 
32 records, May 29 to June 18. Lower California: 29 records, March 
10 to June 8; 15 records, April 6 to May 18. Santa Barbara Islands: 
10 records, May 16 to June 29; 5 records, June 4to 9. Sanak Islands, 
Alaska: 2 records, June 6; 2 records, June 7; and 1 record, July 3. 
PHALERIS PSITTACULA (Pallas). 
PAROQUET AUKLET. 
HABITS. 
The auklets, like the fur seals, of the Pribilof Islands spend the 
greater part of their lives at sea and return to these lonely fog-bound 
islands in Bering Sea to rear their young, where they are wholly 
engrossed with the cares of reproduction. My short visit to these 
islands in the summer of 1911 served only as an introduction and 
gave me but a slight glimpse into their life histories. Our introduc- 
tion to the famous fur-seal islands was characteristic of that dismal 
climate. We had been sailing by compass all night from Bogoslof 
Island, and morning found us still groping in the prevailing thick 
fog, which serves to keep the seals’ coats cool and moist, but is 2 
menace to mariners. At last, when we had about concluded that we 
had missed our reckoning and had passed the islands, we began to 
see a few of these large white-breasted auklets flying past us to the 
eastward. Turning, we followed them, and before long we could 
hear the barking, roaring, and bellowing of the fur seals in their 
rookeries on St. Paul Island. Feeling our way carefully toward 
