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 Cb Condor A MAGAZINE OF' WESTERN ORNITHOLOGY lt-lonthly lulletiu of the Cooper Ornithological Club Vol. 4- No. 3. Among the Sea Birds BY WILLIAM BOUT forty miles south of the mouth of the Columbia River and two miles out from the entrance of Netarts Bay are three large rocks. These are the homes of countless num- bers of sea-birds and as the bird life there had never been disturbed to any Santa Clara, Cal., May-Jnne, 1902. $x.oo a Year ot the Oregon Coast. L. FINLEY. Netarts was one of interest to a bird crank because in the coast mountains we found breeding, such birds as the varied thrush, pileolated warbler, Or- egon jay, Vaux swift, pileated wood- pecker, western evening grosbeak and in the dwarfed shrubbery down by the PHOTO BY Ho T. BOHLMAN. TH BIRD ROCKS AT A DISTANC extent we determined, if possible, to make a trip to the rocks and ascertain what species were breeding. There were four in the party including Mr. Herman T. Bohlman, who did the pho- tographic work, and myself. The trip overland last year from Portland to seashore we found the wren-tit. We also saw a flock of cross-bills but no sign of their nesting. We reached the coast the last of May and spent the first two weeks of June at the sea-shore. The weather was very unsettled at that time and it was rather