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THE GANNET 



decreased to fifty pairs."* In 1887 Mr. F. A. Lucas, who 

 visited the Bird Rocks in July of that year, tells us that no 

 Gannets then bred on the Little Bird Rock, and only 150 on 

 the Pillar Rock adjoining it, but that according to the light - 



[/•'. M. Chai-imnn, Phot. 



GANNETS ON BIRD ROCK. 



house keeper, there were about 10,000 on Great Bird Rock.f 

 When Mr. Chapman was there in 1898 he found Puffins 



* "Bird Studies with a Camera," p. 160. " Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist.," (1883), p. 392. It was on July 4th that Mr. Brewster and 

 Professor Hyatt landed. Mr. Maynard's narrative is published in " Town 

 and Coimtry " for 1879. 



t "The Auk," 1888, p. 133. 



