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 20 THE CONDOR Vol. IV The Wingless Cormorant of the Gtlapagos. By ROLLO H. BECk. CCOMPANYING this sketch is a half-tone of the wingless cor- morant (]halacrocorax harrisi), found only about Narborough Island, Galapagos Archipelago. The bird was brought aboard our schooner alive and kept three or four days in the tortoise penguins with similar habits are as com- mon on one island as the other. The cormorants seem to stay very close at home however, as we saw none over 500 yards off shore and usually they were close in shore, often right in the breakers. PHOTO. BY TH Ir WINGL Ir== CORMORANT (PHALACROCORAX HARRI=I) pen, where we secured two or three photographs of it, this one being the best. It is a ccmmon habit of these cormo- rants to extend their wings to dry when they climb upon the rocks to sun them- selves and digest their breakfasts. It seems strange that they should be found only about this one island since Albemarle is only about five miles dis- tant with a rough coast line, and the The second illustration is a more or less faithful representation of myself in collecting costume, examining a nest of Geospiza Jdiginosa minor on Abingdon Island, April 5, I9Ot- We found a flour sack the most convenient and lightest receptacle for nests. If we had but one or two, after wrapping them they could be placed in our shooting coats, but when several nests are found, as they frequently are, within xoo yards