THE GREAT CUTHBERT ROOKERY 
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LOUISIANA HERONS. “YOUNG IN THEIR RUDE HOME” 
Out near the edge, on the very tops of the trees, were the 
nests of the Florida Cormorants, rather more compact than 
most of those of the other birds, but especially dirty. Some 
of them held from two to four dirty-white eggs, but in the 
majority there were small, naked, black young, repulsive in 
appearance. Thev lay squirming in the nests unable to stand 
or sit up, and suggested reptiles rather than birds. In only 
one nest were there young large enough for successful photo- 
