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192 THE CONDOR V?.XV these specimens he became acquainted with the late Chester Barlow, and it was on account of the friendship which ensued that he was led to loin the Cooper Ornithological Club in I895. The Amador County mine not having turned out as well as he had been led to expect, Kaeding accepted an invitation to ioin A. W. Anthony on a trip to the South Pacific islands. A second trip was made with Mr. Anthony in ?897. Fig. 52. HI?NR B. KAEDING; PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY W. OTTo ]?MERSON ON THE FARALLON ISLANDS IN JUNE, 1903. (See Kaeding's article in Condo?' for September, 1903, pages 121-127.) On this latter expedition the schooner was wrecked in the nighttime off Mag- dalena Bay, and the party escaped from the sinking vessel through the breakers in a small boat, saving but few of their possessions and specimens, landing on a desolate beach in scant clothing, with but little if any food, and with a sixty- mile walk in prospect to the nearest point of succor! Much was added to our knowledge of the bird life of some of these islands by the two expeditions made