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Volume XIII * N ovember-December, 1911 Number 6 
ANOTHER FORTNIGHT ON THE FARALLONES 
By WILLIAM LEON DAWSON 
WITH SEVEN PHOTOS BY THE: AUTHOR 
O BE SURE it was the writer’s fortnight, so 
that the word “another” must be understood 
as recalling the visits of other adventurers in- 
stead of former personal experience. TheFaral- 
lones are classical ground, and their ornitholog- 
ical resources have been so frequently and ably 
discussed in the pages of The Condor and 
elsewhere, that one hesitates to add his mite to 
the imposing array of published notes. This 
fact also must excuse the writer for assuming 
in his readers a general knowledge of the loca- 
tion, topography and history of the Farallones, 
as well as of the chief characteristics of its im- 
mortal double quintette of breeding birds. But precisely because such a general in- 
terest has been aroused in this, the most populous breeding resort of the nearer 
Pacific Coast, a report of current conditions there may not be amiss. 
Through the courtesy of the management of the California Academy of Sciences, 
which had permission to secure material for a magnificent “habitat group”, the 
writer spent the fortnight, May 20 to June 3 inclusive, studying and photographing 
the birds of the Farallones. 
The trip out was made in a “tug” 
properly written t^^g and 
or '"u ( the 
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ast-named, known as the descensus ad inferno, being the most excruciating, both 
n fact and in retrospect). Neptune demanded toll, and in default of payment gave 
his hapless victim a sound thrashing, after the rude fashion observed by the Skua 
