. Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order Tubinares and order Steganopodes . l mice should be able to kill abird several times larger than themselves, and provided with a fairlystrong, hooked bill; but no doubt the petrels get caught in the endof their burrow, and, being terrified, do not even try to defend them-selves. Campbell and Mattingley (1906) write: Two enemies of the white-faced storm-petrel are found on the island—theharrier, and, worse still, the common rat, introduced by the guano-getters. Ifthese rodents are not exterminated, it is only a matt
. Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order Tubinares and order Steganopodes . l mice should be able to kill abird several times larger than themselves, and provided with a fairlystrong, hooked bill; but no doubt the petrels get caught in the endof their burrow, and, being terrified, do not even try to defend them-selves. Campbell and Mattingley (1906) write: Two enemies of the white-faced storm-petrel are found on the island—theharrier, and, worse still, the common rat, introduced by the guano-getters. Ifthese rodents are not exterminated, it is only a matter of time when they willdestroy the occupants of the rookery, since several freshly killed remnants ofthese fragile birds were found about. Since the above was written the bird which breeds on the islandsin the eastern Atlantic Ocean has been separated as a distinct sub-species, Pelagodroma marina hypoleuca (Moquin-Tandon). Thisis, of course, the subspecies which belongs on the American list. Itseems better, hoAvever, to leave the life history as I have written it, U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 121 PL. 24. Beniuida Islands. A. O. Gross.
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