AMONG THE WATER-FoOwlL 
ting half way there, we had to give it up, and going 
ashore on the sand-bar that formed the east side of 
the lagoon, solaced ourselves among the abounding 
Gulls, Terns and Plovers. Here, after all, we probably 
found more of interest than we should have done on 
the rock, for on our return we met a man who had 
been there a summer or two ago and had _ noticed 
nothing but Terns breeding. It 1s thus probable 
that the Cormorants use the rock merely as a roost. 
There were still the Black Guillemot and Raven 
to be investigated, and not far from our head- 
quarters was a most picturesque place where both 
were found. This is a tremendous headland and 
cliff that fronts on the inside bay well up toward its 
head near East Point, known as ‘‘ East Cape.” One 
can walk up a steep grassy slope in the rear, and 
then look over a perpendicular cliff some two hun- 
dred feet high. The soft rock keeps crumbling 
away, and now and then a fragment falls, to add to 
the pile of debris that has gathered below, which in 
some places reaches half way up the Clute 
As we approached it the first time, in a boat, a 
flock of nearly twenty Ravens rose aad Tieeeeolt over 
the summit, startled from their nests or roost on the 
ledges, and flew away when they saw that we in- 
tended to land. ‘The debris from the cliff came to 
the water’s edge and made it a very rough spot for 
disembarking. But, having an off-shore wind, we 
luffed the boat up near enough to leap out. Black 
Guillemots, hearing our voices, began to fly out 
from holes high up above us, to settle well out in 
the water. By clapping our hands and shouting, 
we started a number more. Then, despite the 
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