SOOTY TEKN-Annotated List 
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March - 7"9 5 ' • 
(Clapp) 
Kost remarkable, however, was the discovery of two small colonies o: 
Soo.y Terns with young birds indicating a hitherto unknown winter laying 
season ;or Leeward Island Sooty Terns. Xridler found a colony v:_ 
ieaso several hundred young on the upper east slope of Miller Canyon. 
Mcsu of the young were near-fledging (perhaps 6 or 7 weeks old) but some 
Oohers were haif-grown (perhaps 4- weeks old). Another colony wish about 
J ¥ei - grown young, some suiil with down on the juvenal plumage (nossibly 
about 4 or 5 weeks old) was found by Kenyon on the slopes of East Palm 
Valley.. Allowing for a 4 week incubation period, laying in these colonies 
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> laying in these col_ 
o nave Degun no iaoer oCuu aDouo one second, or tniro. we eh ol leceilber 
ddO may nave continued until as recently as the hirst or second 
v/eeu Ox January. Prom that time uo me present there was apparently a 
niatus m initiation oh laying since examination oh the eggs oh the 
Cuiuenhy nesoo.ng■ oirds suggested mat no eggs were probably laid any 
earlier than the last ween oh February and most had probably been laid 
in the week preceding our arrival ( the hirst week oh March). ' 
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