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returned to the chick and took 5 photographs of it. lie then decided to work 
up towards camp checking his burrows as he went. I decided to work ray rocks 
(No. 4) then up the left side of No. 2 and agreed to raeet him in about an 
hour. Just as I started to go across the grassy slope into the rocks I 
slipped on a loose boulder and bounced twice. I banged ray left shin but 
thought I only bruised it. My nerves were shattered for a while so I con- 
tinued checking burrows. Ify leg hurt some and I was still shaken a bit so 
I decided to work back to camp, since 1 had lost ay enthusiasm. X was 
checking burrows on the way up when I noticed blood splattered on ray pant 
leg and sneaker. X rolled up ray pant leg and found a deep gash 2 inches 
long with blood pouring out and being soaked up by raj- sock. I worked up s 
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to carap not c he citing the burrows very carefully. I reached carap and tried 
to keep raoving to raake sure ray leg didn't stiffen up before we got out of 
the crater. After about 20 minutes waiting for Larry I heard him calling 
me from below. I was reluctant to go down but decided that if he were 
either hurt or had an adult bird X wanted to be there. So X decended 
gingerly and finally reached him at the base of Ho. 2. He had a beautiful 
adult Bark rump which he had saved for me to band. It ms a uniform sooty 
black above from crown to tail sharply defined from the white below. The 
black neck was broad and strikingly different from Warren's skins in Honolulu. 
Furthermore the dark stripe batmen the mist and shoulder was broad and 
distinct as opposed to the white lining of Warren* s birds. We worked it 
over for molt and found none. The plumage ms goed and only slightly worn. 
I banded it and released it and we headed back up to C€a3 ^ # We Sphered our 
stuff and wnt up the rocky ridge and up and over the rim. J$y* leg was 
