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Bradley when he returned to the rookery told me, “ You could a-walked 
right around the ruke-ry on them birds’ bodies; between four and five 
hundred of ’em.” 
The following year, while working toward Cuthbert, my outfit was 
destroyed by fire, and operations were of necessity postponed. ‘That 
summer Bradley was shot while on duty, a death he had long predicted 
for himself, and I made no further effort to visit the rookery until 1907, 
when the pian was defeated by conditions encountered in the Bahamas. 
MAKING A SKETCH FOR THE BACKGROUND OF THE CUTHBERT ROOKERY GROUP. 
In 1908, however, the trip was made without mishap and, once started, 
proved to be by no means a difficult undertaking. My special object 
in visiting Cuthbert was to make studies on which to base a group of 
Roseate Spoonbills. Fortunately the rookery was found to contain 
between thirty and forty of these rare birds, together with a dozen Snowy 
Egrets, three or four hundred American Egrets, at least two thousand 
Louisiana Herons, with some fifty Little Blue Herons, several hundred 
White Ibises and a few Cormorants. The Spoonbills and Herons were 
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