. North American birds eggs . the eye. The whole of the . under surface of the wing is also breed on the coast islands from ■ Santa Barbara southward. The singleegg is laid at the end of a l)urrow or increvices among the rocks. It is a palehut^y white in color and thickly, butfinely dotted over the whole surface with *• ^ ^ purplisli lirown, and with some largerspots at the larger end. Size x ,L^ Data.—Galapagos Islands, March 2,1001. ^* No nest. Single egg laid in a crevice in therocks. Collect(jr, Rollo H. Beck. I^ North American Birds Craveri Murrelet. Brachy
. North American birds eggs . the eye. The whole of the . under surface of the wing is also breed on the coast islands from ■ Santa Barbara southward. The singleegg is laid at the end of a l)urrow or increvices among the rocks. It is a palehut^y white in color and thickly, butfinely dotted over the whole surface with *• ^ ^ purplisli lirown, and with some largerspots at the larger end. Size x ,L^ Data.—Galapagos Islands, March 2,1001. ^* No nest. Single egg laid in a crevice in therocks. Collect(jr, Rollo H. Beck. I^ North American Birds Craveri Murrelet. Brachyramphus craveri. 17 Ranee.—Both coasts of Lower California, breeding chieHy on the Gulf Murrelet is very similar to the last except that the under surfaces of thewings are dusky. Breeds on the islands near Cape St. Lucas, burrowing in theground as do most of the others of this species. They lay a single egg, theground color of which is buff ; they are quite heavily blotched with X 27. Black grijlle. Guillemot. CrjijiJius ■*. ^ ,-. Range.—Coasts and islands of : the North Atlantic, breeding from • * .% Maine northward to southern . > Greenland. Guillemots are larger % • . , - birds than the Murrelets (length ■^ . ■ ■ fr 13 inches) and their plumage is - .^ entirely different. This species in . ^ ■/ summer is entirely black exceptthe ; ^ wing coverts which are white. The ■^, :.- bases of the greater coverts, how- ever, are black, this generally break-niuish white.] ing the white mirror as it is called. The under surfaces of the wings are white. Legs red. These birdsbreed abundantly on the rocky islands and high cliffs along the coast. Soonafter the first of June the eggs are laid in the crevices of the rocks and sometimesupon the bare ledges. Two or three eggs make the set. The ground color is apale bluish or greenish white and the markings are various shades of brown andblack. Size X Data.—Grand Man
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