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beside the yng. and is back in the bat of an eye with a tiny shimmering 
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morsel. The whole thing* is utterly charming. The adults as I have said 
are beyond compare in their gentle grace and beauty. The eggs are the most 
variable and interesting of ail terns I know. The yng. a silent alert 
brownish buff mite that is more active and capable than any tern of his 
age. The setting a rugged pinnacle that must seem a veritable eagle cliff 
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to the younster. And below him not k feet away the myriad life and tern 
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food of a tidal pool to watch, and one day learn to catch! The famed Alba- 
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tross dance was a frank disappointment to me, but these Love Terns have 
fired my enthusiasm as almost no bird has ever done. - 
We snapped several stills of the younster & made some film but unfortu- 
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nately the sun left his perch in shadow before the parent decided we were 
harmless, and fluttered down 'from the rim of the "cliff" to give him the 
two tiny fish she had been holding for him for some time - holding cross- 
wise deep in the inner angle of the bill. 
All the other Love Terns save 2 in the colony about the houses have 
only eggs todate. 
In view of the boats departure tomorrow I worked around camp this aft. 
doing odds and ends that have been neglected in the excitement of work in 
a new area such as this. 
The colony of Sula piscator near the houses is doing pretty well - the 
birds sticking to their guns despite passers by. At 10 feet they merely 
make futile stabs at one or pay no attention whatever. As one approaches 
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closer they give a terrifying squawk or scream Sc ruffle up fantastically. 
There are perhaps 50 birds around camp in the ironwood "tree" and the 
2 or 3 dead bushes. All of these save 3 are in normal adult plumage. Of 
the 3 exceptions one has almost attained full plumage lacking the coral red 
