M&y op Juno, the social activities of thd adults continue for so von months 
or more, The danoe of the blaok-footed albatross, given to the accompani¬ 
ment of loud neighing calls is even more spri^itly than that of their fairer 
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cousins, fruly the life of these great birds will merit prolonged study 
by an observant animal psychologist, 
gha Marauders. 
Unmolested for centuries on land the birds of Laysan knew their 
only enemies in the sea so that man on his arrival was aooepted as a 
phenomenon of interest to be treated without fear. Aside from a certain 
amount of egging and the pulling of the long ornamental central tail 
spikes of the red-tailed Tropic-birds, the guano workers trembled the 
birds little exoept for the necessary infringement on their breeding areas 
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by the guano workings. The year 1906 practically marked the olose of the 
guano industry and though residenoo was maintained here for a few months 
longer, the island then was practically abandoned. On February 3, 1909 
the entire Leeward chain with the exception of Midway (which is under 
jurisdiction of the Navy Department) was set aside by former President 
Theodore Roosevelt as the Hawaiian 3ird Reservation, Though it would seem 
that this action furnished final protection to the harmless friendly hordes 
of sea birds that nested there, other forces were at work. Fashion still 
demanded feathers for feminine adornment, and this barbarian trade, blocked 
fQj* the time within the limits of the United btates, turned to more distant 
fields. Word came somehow to Honolulu that poachers were at work to the 
westward and in January, 1910 the revenue cutter Thetis, under Captain 
W. V, S, Jacobs, surprised and apprehended 23 Japanese on laysan and nearby 
