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and Petrels the only birds nesting on the summit of the 

 Great Bird Rock. ". . . . not a single descendant of the 

 one hundred thousand Gannets which, according to Bryant, 

 occupied the top of the Rock in 1860 now being found 

 there."* He assessed the Gannets on Great Bird Rock at 

 perhaps only l,500,t and those on the Little Bird Rock at 

 500, a sad falling off in regard to the former during eleven 

 years 



In 1900 Mr. Job went to Bird Rock, as already mentioned, 

 and again in 1904, and on the second visit the number of 

 Gannets might, in his opinion, be probably put at 2,000. 



In the same year Bird Rock was visited by Mr. A. C. Bent, 

 who has obliged me with the following notes from his 

 memoranda J : — 



"June 24th, 1904. . . . They [the Gannets] are not now 

 killed to any extent by the fishermen, very little egging is 

 done, and only a very few are killed by the inhabitants of the 

 Rock for food, hence they are very tame. Most of the birds 

 nest on the west side of the Rock, fully two-thirds of them, 

 about one-sixth on the two ends and only one-sixth on the 

 whole east side, probably because most of the best ledges are 

 on the west side, which are also the most inaccessible. I 



* " Bird Studies," p. 181. 

 t " Bird Studies," p. 183. 

 X See also his article in " Bird Lore " for 1908, p. 237. 



