. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . nge.—I\acitic Coast of North .America, breeding from theAleutians s<iuth to the Farallones and San (^.eronimo Island. Range in Washington.—Little known resident of coastal waters, breedingsparingly on some of the ( )lympiades 1 .Alexander Islet, nhunyuatzachtahl, CarrollIslet, etc. I. Casual on Puget Sound. Authorities.— |Cassins auk, Johnson, Rep. Gov. \V. T. 1884 (,1885), 23.]Rhoads, Lroc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1893, 30. L^ Specimens.—C. D. THE CASSIN AUKLET. 913 WE wer
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . nge.—I\acitic Coast of North .America, breeding from theAleutians s<iuth to the Farallones and San (^.eronimo Island. Range in Washington.—Little known resident of coastal waters, breedingsparingly on some of the ( )lympiades 1 .Alexander Islet, nhunyuatzachtahl, CarrollIslet, etc. I. Casual on Puget Sound. Authorities.— |Cassins auk, Johnson, Rep. Gov. \V. T. 1884 (,1885), 23.]Rhoads, Lroc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1893, 30. L^ Specimens.—C. D. THE CASSIN AUKLET. 913 WE were taking the oological horizon of Dhuoyuatzaclitahl, the tanKuisPetrel island of the Ouillayute Needles grttup. and had just repaired to thesaw-grass area which crowns its crest when the professor held up a pale greenegg three times larger than (irdinary and modestly asked if that were aPetrels. I should say not, the bird-man cried: whereupon the i)rofessorreturned to the burrow and drew forth the owner of the egg, a strange foreign-looking bird with leaden plumage al)ove, white underparts and a gray-green. Taken on Alexander Islet. Photo b\ the Author. CASSINS AUKLKT, AND YOUNG. eye which blinked and stared like that of a Czech caught smuggling. It was aCassin Auklet, the Kwoahlla of which the Ouilla^utes had been telling us;and it was only in this randiim fashion that the bird was added to the list ofthe breeding sea fowl of the coast of \Vashington. The reason for previous oversight was not far to seek, for Cassins is anearlv bird, most of the burrows containing young on the iith of June, 1907,while the Petrels were only beginning to lay. They are, moreover, desultorybreeders, for fresh eggs may be found in burrows alongside of tliose contain- 914 THE CASSIN AUKLET. ing Niiuiii; iwii-iliirds gntwn. Wt- aftfrwani fduml iIrmii under wiik-ly \aniiigconditions upon Alexander Island and ! Ial)aaluaylch, but gleaned scant in-formation as lo their habits—by day. ()
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