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up and taken to the air leaving a feast for the curlev. 
The yng. albatrosses are facing it out alone with-heads low & out ahead 
of theta into the wind instead of under the wing or down of the back as they 
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enerally sleep away the days. Their eyes are running with tears and in 
each corner is a pellet of sand accumulation. Rescued 3 or k that had 
backed into the mouths of shearwater holes and literally been buried alive 
One whose head & neck alone shoved was almost too weak to sit up and face 
the wind when I rescued him. 
All the shearwaters that sit around by thousands above ground have taken 
to the sea except an occasional'bird or pair that squat blinking the nicti- 
bating membrane in an effort to throw out the sand from their eyes. 
Collected a pair of Sula cyanops and found the o' was the bird that was 
incubating perhaps indicating that the o'cf do the incubating by day. Reno 
took a bird that further bore this out, but of course full data of many 
cases would be necessary to eliminate coincidence.They make no pretense of 
a nest but lay the eggs (2 in all but 3 or ^ cases out of 4-0 or 50 nests ex¬ 
amined) on bare sand in the center of a circle which they keep brushed free 
from loose sand by rotating about on the,axis of the eggs. A few of the 
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e two weeks old, many just hatching and perhaps l/2 still have eggs. 
xrides bright yellow. 
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Went over to the big marsh N.E. of the lagoon after lunch to see how 
our cache of tripods etc. had weathered the storm, but found the cache 
buried in sand and did not dare remove covering to examine damage in this 
gale. 
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n Albatross^ ,„ve gathered from ail parts of the island to the marsh. 
vnere sand does not blew in their eyes. 
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