May, 1920] 



The Canadian Field-Naturalist 



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size who struggles violently in protest. It frequently 

 happens that, after repeated requests for food, the 

 parent, unable to rid itself of the tormenting young, 

 takes refuge in flight. 



The young when fully grown may often be seen 

 practicing flight by ascendmg a few feet into the 

 air and coming back to the rock. The earliest de- 

 scent by the young to the water took place the last 

 of July. 



that they stand out as light patches on the gray 

 rock, while the birds themselves look like black 

 bottles. During my stay at Grand Greve during the 

 month of August an almost continuous stream of 

 these birds was passing and repassing over the little 

 settlement, the birds were going to their feeding 

 grounds in the Gaspe Basin and York and Dart- 

 mouth Rivers and returning to their nests. They 

 passed singly and in companies of two or three up 



CLOSE-UP VIEW OF GANNETS ON LEDGES OF 



BONAVENTURE ISLAND, 1914. 



Photo by Geological Survey Courtesy of Commi.s.sion 

 of Conservation, Canada. 



The great cliffs, which rise from the water to a 

 height of si,\ or seven hundred feet and extend 

 along the shore for four or five miles near Mt. St. 

 Albans and Cape Bon Ami on the north side of 

 the Forillon back of Grande Greve are nearly per- 

 pendicular and possess but few shelves for foothold. 

 On these are built the nests of this species and they 

 are so plastered with the white guano of the bird 



to thirty or forty. In warm weather most of the 

 birds had their mouths open, but in cool weather 

 they were shut. I looked carefully for carbo but 

 all were auritus. 



During August groups of a hundred or more fully 

 grown young birds were to be seen on the little 

 pocket beaches at the foot of the Bon Ami cliffs. 



The fishermen dislike this bird as they say it 



