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Nov., I9O 5 I AMONG THE SEA B][i?i)S OFF THE OREGON COAST, PART II I63 hundred yards to the two inner rocks. The ridge of the middle rock is held almost entirely by a colony of Farallone cormorants, while the smallest shelves far up the sides of both the inner rocks are the homes of the Baird cormorant. The Fatallone cormorant, it seems, is not satisfied with a grass nest, but it collects a lot of sticks, that have been worn smooth by the waves, and works them in for a foundation. The young of this species is easily distinguished from the others by its bright yelloxv throat-pouch. The cormorants seemed to suffer most from the raids of the gulls. The instant a gull alights near a cormorant's nest, the owner o[ the nest takes the defensive by spreading her wide, black wings in a protecting canopy over her eggs or young. She darts her long, hooked bill at the intruder, who cahnly composes his feathers and settles down into a statuesque silence. Gradually the fears are quieted in the black mother's breast, her wings relax to their normal position, as the sup-