Mopern CtiiFrF-DWwELLERS 
Soon the dory landed, and, bidding our friends 
good-bye, bag and baggage we were lowered down 
in the crate. I photographed the crate, and then 
the clifts and the hoisting apparatus as seen from 
the dory. Soon we were on board the schooner 
and were scudding rapidly southward with free 
sheets, many of the birds following us in farewell 
salute, while other salutations came through bomb 
and flac, and we waved back expressions of our 
friendly feeling for the brave spirits imprisoned 
upon that grim, lonely rock. 
To complete our study of the Cliff-Dwellers at 
the Magdalen Islands, several species that did not 
breed at Bird Rock had to be followed up. One 
was the Cormorant, that near relative of the 
Gannet, which differs from it, in colour, about as 
darkness from light. Evidently they were not 
plenty, for all we saw were an occasional one or 
two flying over the Bay inside Grand Entry, usually 
headed romana Shag Rock. Unlike the Gannets, 
too, they are exceedingly shy. All that I have ever 
met, here or elsewhere, that came near enough to 
be identified, were the Double-crested species. The 
so-called <‘Common” kind seems to be a _ very 
elusive bird, unless it be in the far north. 
Evidently Shag Rock must be our destination, 
if we were tosee much of the Cormorants. So one 
morning, with high hopes, we started out in the 
fisherman’s boat for that grim little rock twenty miles 
to the westward. Unfortunately the wind soon hauled 
out ahead and died away completely. So, after get- 
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