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Title: Life histories of North American diving birds : order Pygopodes
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bent, Arthur Cleveland, 1866-1954
Subjects: Divers (Birds) Birds
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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l is a little different in shapeand relative dimensions; its life history is so similar that I shall notattempt to repeat what I have said about the foregoing bird, butshall endeavor to give what additional information we have relatingto the California murre and describe a few of its most striking breed-ing colonies. Whereas the Atlantic murre is now confined, in thebreeding season, to a few restricted localities on the American sideof the ocean, the California murre is very widely distributed allalong the Pacific coast, breeding in nearly all suitable localities, fromthe Santa Barbara Islands, off southern California, to the Pribilofand other islands in Bering Sea. Moreover, the common murre iscomparatively rare as an American bird, whereas the Californiamurre is excessively abundant throughout most of its range. The name, California murre, at once suggests the Farallone Islands,one of the largest and certainly the most famous of the breeding U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 107 PL. 35
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UPE HISTOEIES OP NORTH AMEEICAN DIVING BIBDS. 183 resorts of this species. These islands are far too well known andhave been too often written up to require any elaborate descriptionhere. But, for the benefit of those of us who have never been there,I am tempted to quote the following short historical and descriptivenote by Mr. W. Otto Emerson (1904): From the old Spanish chronicles we learn of the discovery of the FaralloneIslands in 1543 by Ferrelo. It was Sir Francis Drake, however, who gave usthe first particular description of the Island of St. James, as they were thenknown (1579). Drake, it seems, landed to replenish his larde* with seal meat.Doubtless he laid In a stock of eggs, for a man Is never too old a boy to collecteggs where they may be had for the taking. In 1775 Bodega and Maurelle, ontheir way up the northwest coast, named the islands Los FaraUones de losFrayles, In honor of the monks who had discovered San Francisco Bay in1769, the same year that the Franciscans foun

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