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Nearly all the nests had three eggs, but occasionally 
there were but two. 
The island was very small, hardly more than an 
acre in extent, so that it was not hard to estimate 
the population. We counted just about an even 
hundred nests with eggs, besides 2 number more 
that were empty. Some had probably been robbed, 
and I think it safe to say that there were three hun- 
dred birds belonging on this island. There was 
about one pair of Herring Gulls for ten of Ring-bills. 
The eggs of all had evidently been laid the mid- 
dle of May, and there were no young yet hatched. 
Meanwhile we had also investigated the homes 
of the Cormorants, and a most interesting sight it 
was. The nests were good-sized platforms, built 
very ingeniously 
of crooked sticks 
that were so in- 
terwoven that 
the nests were 
often substantial 
enough to be 
lifted up without 
falling apart. In 
fact nwe- Once 
“ THE NESTS WERE GOOD-SIZED PLATFORMS, BUILT 
found a nest on VERY INGENIOUSLY OF CROOKED STICKS.” NESTS 
is - Cy OF DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS. THE NEAR- 
the shore o1 the EST HAS IN IT TWO NAKED BLACK YOUNG THAT 
. HARDLY SHOW IN THE PICTURE 
mainland that 
had either been carried or drifted there, and yet 
was intact. There were seventy-three nests in 
all, in two about equal areas, one down by the 
shore, the other well up on the higher part of 
the island, but not far away. In each area the 
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