. Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies . the North Pacific from Behring Strait to Southern Range: From San Nicholas Island Season: Approximately, May 1 to August : Behind or under boulders or in dark places, as near the water as : 2 ; light green-blue, thickly marked with lilac, mostly at larger end. Size X The Pigeon Guillemot, so like a guillemot and so like
. Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies . the North Pacific from Behring Strait to Southern Range: From San Nicholas Island Season: Approximately, May 1 to August : Behind or under boulders or in dark places, as near the water as : 2 ; light green-blue, thickly marked with lilac, mostly at larger end. Size X The Pigeon Guillemot, so like a guillemot and so likea pigeon, is very abundant on the Farallones. It is apretty, graceful bird, first cousin to the murre,which it somewhat resembles, being of a soft,dark brown color. Two points im-press you at first, — its conspicuousscarlet .feet, and the broad whiteband on the wing. Like manysea birds, it stands with the body ina vertical position, supported by thelong foot, after the manner of a curious nest is made of pebbles, carried 29. The Babyone by one in its bill and deposited in acircle in dark crannies of the rocks or hidden under boul-ders. They seem to serve chiefly as a rim to keep the eggs. BIRDS OF THE OPEN SEA 13 from rolling away. The breeding ground of the PigeonGuillemot is that also occupied by the gulls, on thelower part of the islands, often near the waters surrounded on every side by the nests of the gullsand living near neighbors with them, they seem to bethe only birds which these brigands of the sea do notcommonly molest. Probably pigeon eggs are not totheir taste. The baby Guillemot when first hatchedis covered with thin blackish down on the head, neck,and back, shading to dark gray on the under is no conspicuous coloring to betray him in thedark nesting place, for even his feet are dull olive ratherthan red like those of his father. As with our ownland pigeons, the family always consists of twins, theo-retically a male and a female
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