THE COAST AT MONTEREY 



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Throughout the ehiy, leathered mowers were rarely 

 absent from the field, sometimes as many as nine birds being 

 present. The denuded area from which the grass had been 

 removed, was as bare and as sharply-defined from that por- 

 tion of the crop which the Cormorants had not yet gathered, 

 as though it had been mowed and i-akcil by a hiuiiau harves- 

 ter. 



On June 9, a second alteui}it was uiadc to h-uid on the 

 Coruiorant rock hci'c bid, like the first, it faiieih 'I'ho l)irds 

 now had eggs. 



Brandt's Cormorant 



