. Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order Tubinares and order Steganopodes . Laysan Island. W. K. Laysan Island. W. K. Fisher. Laysan Albatross. For description see page 329 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN PETRELS AND PELICANS. 11 In comparing the conditions, noted by him in 1903 and in 1911, Alanson Bryan (1912) says: The shuighter wrought by the plume hunters is everywhere apparent. Oneof the work buildings formerly used by the guano company and later as astorehouse by the poachers is still standing. With a side torn out and leftopen
. Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order Tubinares and order Steganopodes . Laysan Island. W. K. Laysan Island. W. K. Fisher. Laysan Albatross. For description see page 329 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN PETRELS AND PELICANS. 11 In comparing the conditions, noted by him in 1903 and in 1911, Alanson Bryan (1912) says: The shuighter wrought by the plume hunters is everywhere apparent. Oneof the work buildings formerly used by the guano company and later as astorehouse by the poachers is still standing. With a side torn out and leftopen to the weather by the men of the Thetis, it is still filled with thousandsof pairs of albatross wings. Though weatherbeaten and useless, they showhow they were cut from the birds whose half-bleached skeletons lie in thousandsof heaps scattered all over the island. This wholesale killing has had an appalling effect on the colony. No onecan estimate the thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of birds thathave been wilfully sacrificed on Laysan to the whim of fashion and the lustof gain. It is conservative to say that fully one-half the
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