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from the Bay of Fundy. The Herring Gulls which had been out 

 fishing three or four miles from Three Islands, where there is a big 

 colony, were returning with their gullets so full of small herring 

 that they seemed to be weighted down and could barely fly with 

 their loads of food for their young birds. ' There were no Terns in 

 this vicinity, though on Machias Seal Island, some ten miles west 

 of Gannet Rock and the Murre Ledges, there is a prosperous colony. 



One of the most numerous sea birds, of this whole region, is the 

 Black Guillemot or Sea Pigeon. This bird in the breeding season 

 is jet black, except a white patch on each wing. In the winter the 

 plumage changes to a gray with black streaks, and in this dress the 

 Sea Pigeon comes to the waters of Casco Bay quite plentifully. 



Kider Ducks breed in small numbers on Three Islands, perhaps 

 a dozen pairs nesting there. We saw, as we passed White Head 

 Island, a pair of these handsome birds sitting quietly on the rocks, 

 doubtless resting from their morning food-gathering. In season all 

 three species of Eider Ducks come here, the American Eider 

 (breeding), the Greenland Eider and the King Eider. L,each's 

 Petrel breeds in a number of places on the islands in the Bay of 

 Fundy. Usuall}' the Northern Phalarope or Sea Goose, comes 

 here in great numbers in August, on its way south. Although I 

 had seen a flock of these birds in Casco Bay more than a week 

 earlier, very few were then in the vicinity of Grand Manan, though 

 a week or two later there would of course be immense flocks of them. 



On the following day, August 4th, I made a trip to the north- 

 ern end of the island, in search for a family of Duck Hawks, which 

 Mr. Moses assured me were breeding on the summit of the cliff 

 known as "The Seven Days' Work." We drove to the head of the 

 cliff and prepared to descend to the shore below. For a distance of 

 some three hundred or three hundred and fifty feet, at least, we 

 clambered down the side of the precipice, by a winding path, which 

 most of the way offered a sure footing, and soon we found ourselves 

 on a rocky shore covered with large boulders, among which we made 

 our way with some difficulty. On the summit there was a fringe of 

 vegetation consisting of stunted trees and bushes, which in man}^ 



