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Rh on Laysan, and one can well believe it. Although aggregated most densely at the rookery, these birds are everywhere on the island, which is

in the shape of a rude quadrilateral about two by one and three fourths miles in area. Albatrosses are scattered everywhere, except on the tide

washed beaches and on the central lagoon. They are crouching under the shade of almost every bush and tuft of grass. The most