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AVIFAUNA OF LAYS AN. 



young Albatrosses. Mr. Freeth protected most vigorously the birds on his island ; but the 

 photograph representing the train laden with Albatross-eggs shows how they were treated 

 after he had left Laysan. 



(The four photographs and the lithographs illustrate much better the immense numbers 

 of this bird, and its utter fearlessness and tameness, than any description possibly could.) 



