I50 JOTTINGS ABOUT BIRDS. 



the birds were baked, now I fear but little used. 

 The demand for eggs continues good, and a fair 

 trade is done each season amongst collectors and 

 for culinary purposes. 



Although the Bass may not be quite so rich in 

 species as the Fame Islands, or some few other 

 haunts of Sea-Fowl, the interest attaching to the 

 place is certainly very great, if not unique. Prob- 

 ably not more than eleven species breed regularly 

 on the rock, and of these four are strictly land 

 birds. With the exception of the Gannet, the 

 remainino- water birds are individually small in 

 numbers, but they form a pleasing variety, and 

 help to emphasize the interest ever attaching to the 

 "geese." No person at all interested in bird life 

 should miss seeing the Bass ; it furnishes an object 

 lesson in ornithology which is so vividly impressed 

 upon the mind that no length of time will success- 

 fully efface it. 



