The Glaucous-winged Gull 



Taken off the Coast of Washington 



PEECHWAH. ONE OF THE OLYMPIADES 



Photo by the A ulhor 



While it is true that the Glaucous-winged Gull does not breed within 

 the limits of California nor anywhere south of Latitude 47 , its breeding 

 habits so closely parallel those of our more familiar Western Gull that I 

 venture to reproduce verbatim et literatim the account which appeared in 

 "The Birds of Washington": Nothing in the domain of ornithology can 

 exceed the romantic interest of a sea-bird island. When to the stubborn 

 challenge of the rock itself and the screaming of the apprehensive fowl, is 

 added the majestic sub-dominant of the roaring sea, you have a thing to 

 stir the heart of vikings. It was the wine of adventure, no doubt, as well 

 as the underlying necessity for food which prompted an Ozette Indian to 

 scale "Peechwah" within recent memory; and which tempted the young 

 Quileutes of a bygone generation to sack Cake Island 1 , whose sides appear 

 "more than perpendicular." 



Once at home, the gulls nest almost anywhere, save that they have 

 not yet been driven into trees, as is the case along the Maine coast. Slop- 



J Islands of the Olympiades, off the coast of Washington, now included in the Quillayute Needles Bird Reser- 

 vation. 



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