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The Wilson Bulletin — No. 6G. 



Carroll Islet. 



Figure 11 



Baird Cormoraut (Phalacrocora.r pelagieiifi resplendens). 

 >«'est and eggs. A detail from the preceding figure. 



p.RANDT CORMORANT ( Pkolacrocora.v penicillatus.) 



15ecau.se these birds confined their nestings wholly to the 

 " IMnnacle," an outlying rock some 200 feet from Carroll sea- 

 ward, too steep for scaling-, we could study them only with 

 binoculars. Their nests seemed to be confined largely to the 

 top of this rock, and seemed to be made of grass, much like 

 the nests of the last species, but placed on nearly flat surfaces. 



