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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).