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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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lliun l'//(JT()GRAPIIING ON THE FALKLAND ISLANDS ill Ilia I I walked on and saw the goose lcn\c her Jiest before I Beared it. She .sloj)ped a hundred and fifty yards from Ihe nest and was at once joined hif her mate who had been watching me from a distance. A skua, who also had been watching me as he circled about, sailed straight for the uncovered nest. While I stood watching the geese, the skua (lio()pod to the grovmd about six feet fi-tnii the tempting egg>^. This was seen at once by the gander, wlio flew rapidly to the nest, evidently considering me a less dangerous enemy than the poach- ing skua. The nest Avas nicely lined and made an attractive picture with
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'J'lio jjeiitlu kiiij; iJcuguiu builds his ucst of tussac grass aud roots, often bringing in from the sea a long i)iece of kelp to add variety to its lining. This bird is in tlic act of stealing liis neighbor's nesting material, a common sea-bird trait practiced wherever opportunity offers diddle-dee leaves and blossoms all about it. Later in the day a crested duck was Hushed from an open nest in a similar location. As the nest contained but two eggs I did not take them, but glancing back after I had passed a few feet, .1 saw a skua drop to the ground, pick up one of the eggs and fly swiftly away with it. Tramping on to the eastward, 1 reached a bushy slope where the domiii- ican gulls were brooding eggs. The nests were all well built, mostly of dry kelp which was abundant on the beach. I could not decide which was the best one to photograph, so went forward again, intending to return later. I found more gulls' nests scattered along the coast line. One, close to the shore line, was placed in the hol- low of a whale's bone tlint had been ibruwii on the bt'acli in a sjoi'm. Along the higli- waler mark in one lonely coNe a Few Icrns bad l)uilt nest>. wliieli cun- l;iin('(; eggs, and in I lie same conc ii black o\ster ealcber called ni\' alteiilion to bis ncsi scratcbed in tlie gravelly soil. Some sections a I tbe east end ot I be island were so rid- dletl with burrows of tbe jackass i)en- guins that the shepherds coidd not ride their horses through the colonies. I more than once broke

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