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by. lastly there seems a sort of community nest which may be the home of 
the earlier circling crowd of younger otf. Finding it impossible to steal 
his nest material they heap added material around the edges until sometime: 
3 or 4 eggs will be laid on what is really one crude hit or miss platform. 
Birds coll, today 
II 
ff3 Puffinus nativitatis o* 
Collected by clapping my helmet over it as it sat above 
ground on sandy ridge near camp. 
M, 
Puffinus nativitatis 
Largest egg in 9 ovary 5 am. 
Sterna fuliginosa 2 
Tobacco patch colony of which none are laying yet. Largest 
:gg in ovary 3 am. 
‘-MH Hit 
