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 Volume X!!! November-December, 1911 Number 6 ANOTHER FORTNIGHT ON THE FARALLONES By WILLIAM LEON DAWSON WITH SEVEN PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR O BE SURE it was the writer'sfrslfortnight, so that the word "another" must be understood as recalling the..vis.its of other adventurers in- stead of former personal experience. The Faral- lones are classical ground, and their ornitholog- ical resources have been so frequently and ably 'discussed in the pages of THE CONDOR and elsewhere, that one hesitates to add his mite to the imposing array of published notes. This factlo-mut excuse the writer for assuming in his readers a general knowledge of the loca- tion, topography and history of the Farallones, as well as of the chief characteristics of its ira- mortal double quintette of breeding birds. But precisely because such a general in- terest has been aroused in this, the most populous breeding resort of the nearer Pacific Coast, a report of current conditions there may notbe amiss. Through the courtesy of the management of the California Academy of Sciefices, which had permission to secure material for a magnificent "habitat group", the writer spent the fortnight, May 20 to June 3 inclusive, studying aud photographing the birds of the Farallones. The trip out was made in a "tug", properly written t g and u0 ortu (the u g ast-named, known as the descensus ad inferno, being the most excruciating, both n fact and in retrospect). Neptune demanded toll, and in default of payment gave his hapless victim a sound thrashing, after the rude fashion observed by the Skua