. Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order Tubinares and order Steganopodes . Laj-san IsUiiid. \V. Iv. Lavsaii Island. W. K. Plsher. Laysan Albatross. For description see page 329 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN PETRELS AND PELICANS. 15 The youne; of most albatrosses are dark colored in their first plu-mages, but in this species the youno- assume a first plumage closelyresembling that of the adult, hence the specific name, immutabilis. Food.—Doctor Fisher (1906) says of their food: Near the forms or nests one not infrequently finds solid pellets—d
. Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order Tubinares and order Steganopodes . Laj-san IsUiiid. \V. Iv. Lavsaii Island. W. K. Plsher. Laysan Albatross. For description see page 329 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN PETRELS AND PELICANS. 15 The youne; of most albatrosses are dark colored in their first plu-mages, but in this species the youno- assume a first plumage closelyresembling that of the adult, hence the specific name, immutabilis. Food.—Doctor Fisher (1906) says of their food: Near the forms or nests one not infrequently finds solid pellets—disgorged bythe yonng in all probability, and by old birds too—consisting entirely of squidbeaks and opaque lenses of the eyes. These lenses become very brittle andamber-like under the action of stomach juices and show a concentric nuts, the large seed of Aleurites moUuccmia, were found by Mr. Snyderin the interior of tlie island and were almost undoubtedly ejected by is well known, albatrosses pick up all sorts of floating material, and candlenuts are frequently seen on the ocean, having been swept seawar
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