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gave up their search in the well-nigh leafless trees and de- 

 scended to the ground. Here on the edges of muddy roads 

 or ditches or wherever the bare earth was exposed, they 

 hopped, puffed out and numb with cold eking out their 



Figr. 6. 



Jones, 1907. 



White-crested Cormorant {PhaJacrocorax dilophiis ciiiciitiiatus). 

 Carroll Islet. 



scanty fare from small worms and larvae. At this time only 

 the earlier trees had begun to leaf out — willows, poplars, 



