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record of this species from the Galapagos Islands* 
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j £he famed albatross colony on Hood Island sm w -sriaflA od , and found 
jt@— a number of birds at this late date, July 28, still incubating 
eggs and others with fledgling young. Two days before ws noted two pairs of 
flightless cormorants on Albemarle, the one with eggs under on© of the birds, 
the other pair attending two half grown young. It is believed that these 
observations extend the known ©gg dates for both species of birds. {¥-/ 
Two and a half days were given over to the reputed n treasure island" 
of the Pacific, Cocos, It was indeed a treasure house of sailfish, for we 
got all of sixteen in our brief stay there. The largest was ten feet two 
Inches long and weighed upward of 130 pounds. I -had two of . my .- aost-4ntere s t ^~" >> 
-Ing enp^r1.eno e«i «■» «- ^ »t, -",nen« T — 9ns was the capture of a. —* 
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rec o r A-r al nbo w-rnmaer ;~' SlagSt i s bininnulatus. a twenty pounded, a spedies 
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not heretofore known to have exceeded twelve pounds. The other ' - expert enc e - r rm 
■ ^ - muofe - m -ere., ex citi n g n nafr the landing of a nine-and-a-half foot, 
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one hundred pound sailfish in a knotted loop of gyllae^ la whio h l.ts "beak" 
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bees®® entangled. while rwa# playing a still larger on© that -& had^ hooked a. 
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moment earlier. Although the hooked fish got away, JT managed to bring the 
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snared one to gaff. Those who have seen the beak of the fish, which %. -has* 
saved ^i th the knot in place, believe that this is the first time a good-rized 
sailfish or per Imps any sailfish has been landed in this manner. The top 
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fi sh for weight Jlor- thc entire-cruis e was a 230 -pound shark that A saw fit to 
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^t nka my -heok while ci rcumnavi gat 1 ng the- island. It took whs. a good two and a 
half hours to 
land it. It was a tiger shark. 
ftaleocerdo arcticus. This is the species we- found so plentiful at Clipperton. 
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taken on other occasions during the cruise. Off Chatham Bay a 
