Pur. WaITE- WINGED FLEET 
by bird-filth and swarms of insects, and given the 
nests of some rather shy Gulls and a camera, let 
him try it, and see if he could keep his temper 
when the string became snarled, and how many 
fogged plates he would get. 
On June 15, the weather calm and cloudy, we 
again visited ~ The Enchanted Isles,’ four of us 
this time. We took some more pictures on the 
same island, and then rowed to the next two, that 
lay together a 
make) away. 
There we had 
enough to oc- 
cupy us the 
festrom therday: 
hese: “islands 
were each con- 
siderably larger 
than the other, 
and were teem- 
ing with bird- . 
; I GOT A FINE EXPOSURE ON TWO BIRDS ON TOP OF 
life. The first THE ROCK.”’ RING-BILLED GULLS ABOUT TO RE- 
of them had TURN TO THEIR NESTS 
on it quite a colony of Common Terns, the second 
a much larger one of Terns, and quite a num- 
ber of Ring- billed Gulls, perhaps a hundred of 
themlatter: ithe Gerns had ther: sets; usually ‘of 
three eggs, everywhere about—above the beach, 
among the stones, and in the grass. We photo- 
graphed a great many nests of various sorts, and it 
was well that we did it early, for about the middle 
of the afternoon the sky grew very dark, and a 
furious rain set in. Fortunately, we were well pre- 
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