. Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order Tubinares and order Steganopodes . .South Ge ) R. r. Broaklyii Musuuni. V. Murphy. Sooty Albatross. For description see paoe 329. LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN PETRELS AND PELICANS. 23 He also says of the albatross that breeds there: Mr. Comer describes the species breeding at Gough Island as having thebeak dark with a yellow stripe on each side. It is common, but does notbreed in rookeries; it places its nests separately on cliffs or projectingrocks, where it is most d fficult to get at them. The
. Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order Tubinares and order Steganopodes . .South Ge ) R. r. Broaklyii Musuuni. V. Murphy. Sooty Albatross. For description see paoe 329. LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN PETRELS AND PELICANS. 23 He also says of the albatross that breeds there: Mr. Comer describes the species breeding at Gough Island as having thebeak dark with a yellow stripe on each side. It is common, but does notbreed in rookeries; it places its nests separately on cliffs or projectingrocks, where it is most d fficult to get at them. The bird commences to lay bythe middle of September, and while sitting, keeps up a continual cry similarto that of a young goat. Mr. Robert Hall (1900) found the sooty albatross breeding onKerguelen Island, in the South Indian Ocean, and gives the follow-ing account of its nesting habits: A trumpet-like screech and eat-like noise seem to be the vocabulary of thisbird, as it wends its curving flight along the face of the cliffs, in the lower partsof which it places its nests. January 5th saw me Investigating three nests onMurray Island in Royal
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