EXTRACTIONS FROM THE UNPUBLISHED SPECIES ACCOUNTS OF A. WETMORE 
ANOUS STOLIDUS PILEATUS 
I collected a series. Nests were a flat platform of straws with a hollow for 
the single egg placed on the edge of a rock or under the overhang of a little 
shelf. 
The Birds are active at night and called continually as they passed over our 
camp. 
Necker Island , June 17-19,? 1923 » Common. Nesting on open slopes. Eggs. 
June 20 , 1929 . About 3000 pairs. 
King Island, French Frigate Shoals , June 22-23, 1923 . About 150 pairs on Round 
Island, kOO pairs on King Island. Some have young hatching now, a part of them 
dark and a part light in color. Parents threaten boobies, and shearwaters with 
harsh notes when the latter intrude too near. 
Juie 2k y 1923 . '0.25 pairs with eggs on Little Gin Island. One new hatched young 
taken. 
June 26 , 1925 . 150 pairs on Trig Island. 200 pairs on Skate Island, 300 pairs on 
Whale Island. 
June 27 , 1925 « 800 pairs on La Perouse Rock. 
June 28 , 1925 . 500 on Tern Island. 
Necker Island , June 29 , 1925 . No change 
Kaula Island, July 1, 1925 . 5000 pairs. 
Johnston Island, July 10 - 17 , 1923 . Abundant breeding on Sand track, rock ledges 
and inland amid clumps of grass. About half have eggs the rest young from newly 
hatched to grown. The newly hatched young are about evenly divided between light 
and dark. 
The nests of these birds are interesting. Some eggs are laid on bare sand 
or rock, others are deposited on a platform of grass with a slight central depressi 
Frequently the nest cavity contains ornaments in the form of entire shells, bits 
of larger shells, the calcareous opercula of cat ! s eye mollusks, bits of 
bone, a cranium or a mandible or an odd shaped piece of wood. It is always of 
