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May, x9o 4 I THE CONDOR 6 3 shipped in ?89?." This amount was' increased to 25,ooo dozen in ?887, I was in- formed by the head keeper, which was the largest picking for several years past. ?n ?896 Mr. Le?erett ?. Loomis visited the island, and the egg picking had fallen to 7645 dozen? From this it is apparent a great decrease in the laying of the tourres had taken place on South Fatallone, and [ was prepared to note a corres- ponding change in the abundance of tourres, as well as a decrease in gulls and cormorants. June ?, x9o3, at 2:30 p.m. found me on the wet deck of the staunch little tug "Voltaire," which rolled like a tub as we lay in Fisherman's Bay, facing the old familiar points, but not the endless multitude of sea-fowl I had seen in ?887 swarm~ ing from the great colonies on Sugar Loaf, Arch Rock, and other places. A walk among the many breeding spots of the southern portions of the island showed an entire absence of birds, and a tramp over to West End on the following day showed similar conditions in many places. Of one rookery, in particular, of Brandt cormorants (?. fiencillatus) where I often spent hours among the nests, nothing remained. This cormorant community was the largest single colony on the island, and the least disturbed'of any, being on Indian Head, on a high fiat a Overlaad Mo?thly, Sept. ?89a, P. 24?. b California Water Birds, III, p. 357.