Penobscot Bay, Maine.
1896
July 1
  Clear with fresh S.W. wind.
  I spent the day at the house writing up my notes etc.
Watrous & Conary took Jim Bernier (who came to Sunshine yesterday
to consult me about the house boat) to Green's Landing. No
eggs collected to-day.
" [July] 2 Cloudy with strong S.W. wind.
  I had to stay in again to-day to finish my work.
Conary and Watrous went down the Bay and with much
difficulty & some risk the latter landed on Black Horse Ledge
where he took about thirty sets of Herring Gull's eggs, one set
containing the very unusual number of six. No cormorants nests.
He also visited Spoon Island to investigate a report (which
Conary did not credit) that Leach's Petrels were nesting there.
It proved true for in a very short time Watrous found & dug open
a number of burrows getting nine nearly fresh eggs. The
fishermen living there told him that upwards of two hundred 
Petrels eggs had been taken on the island this season, most
of them by a native collector, Knight by name.