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66 THE CONDOR Vol,. VI surprised individuals never met on the collecting field. The big brown watery eyes looked up as much as to say, "You've caught me in the act; what are you going to do about it?" When I attempted to pat its head, it uttered a low 'eggy' yelp, and ambled off to the water's edge. (ix) The tourres had a large rookery on the ridge that runs out from Tower Hill, facing the old stone house (built in I855) of the first light keeper on the is- land. This colony has all but disappeared. (x2) This location contained the largest Farallone cormorant rookery of the island (just below the light-tower doorway and facing to north ot Shubrick Pt.). The birds have all left this portion of the island. The accompanying halftone, from a photograph taken in x887 shows this rookery as it then appeared. This picture was the first ever taken of these cormorants. (g3) In a sort of swale just above North Landing the Western gulls had a ROOKERY OF FARALLONE CORMORANT? IN 1887 small colony consisting of twenty or thirty nests. These have all disappeared. (I4) Pigeon guillemot (Ueppbus col?tmb?). This was and still is the most abundant colony of these birds on the island. The locality affords plenty of piled- up loose rocks, xvhere the sea pigeons (as they are called) can lay the two bluish- gray eggs in a natural hollow. (?5 and ?6) Great Murre Cave and Shubrick Point still possess the abund- ance of birds which characterized them in g887. The viexv here shown of Great Murre Cave can give but a slight impression of this great cavern of sea-fowl life. (?7) A colony of western gulls and Farallone cormorants was located on a spur or slight ridge jutting out from a bend of the trail near summit of the Light Tower. This ridge is now bare of any life. The gulls have also disappeared from flat near e. ast landing (?8).