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that his station, which is one-half a statute mile (coast surve}^ measure 

 by me) from their breeding ground has been receiving extensive 

 repairs, the carpenters making the usual noise of this trade. He 

 also stated that the foxes liberated there some time ago are dead. 

 This I could not verify. I v^'as also told by him that about 200 

 gulls were breeding upon Flint Island, and about 100 terns on Pot 

 Rock; the former is quite a high, large island. I took considerable 

 pains to go here and land, and walk across the island and up on 

 its highest part, but no gulls were to be found at this time. Pot 

 Rock is very small, and landing was impossible, but by passing 

 near it, I am sure that no terns were breeding there. I found 

 Capt. Cummings very kind, obliging, and seemingly anxious to do 

 his duty to you. Yet his manner made me especially particular to 

 investigate each statement made by him. 



"To summarize: There are practically no gulls breeding on 

 Cone Island this year, nor are there, so far as I now know, any 

 between the Duck Islands and Pulpit Rock. Many Gulls con- 

 tinue to rest on Cone Island. 



" After visiting these places I directed our course to Egg Rock, 

 which was swept by sea during June, 1902, causing the terns to 

 abandon it ; a colony of several hundred terns is now re-estab- 

 lished. These I believe to be mostly Common Terns. This rock 

 is much exposed and surrounded by a shallow shore, and as the 

 sea was extremely rough I was not able to land ; leaving the 

 launch, I rowed in a small boat as near as possible and discharged 

 a gun. This caused all of the old birds to rise from the rock at 

 once, giving a view of the entire colony. This rock is but one 

 and a half miles from Capt. O. B. Hall's station and in open view 

 of it; it is very well located for protection. 



" Proceeding from here to Freemans Rock the same results 

 were experienced. No young terns were seen at sea in this sec- 

 tion of the coast nor indeed at Libby Island. The Freemans 

 Rock terns are largely Arctic Terns. In addition to the terns and 

 guillemots on this rock, terns on Egg Rock, and Black Ducks on 

 Great Wass Island, Capt. Hall has a colony of about a dozen Blue 

 Herons on Great Wass Island. 



"July 31 I started from Jonesport for Cross Island, and all 

 colonies between these points. The sea had abated during the 



