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persons coining from far and near to stare at 

 them through opera-glasses; for the red-headed 

 woodpeckers were the only pair with such heads 

 reported that season anywhere around. 



Some day the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, 

 the Bible says, which, of course, is much more of 

 a wonder than what I saw one summer on the 

 great bird rocks in the Pacific ocean just off the 

 coast of Oregon. But there on the Three Arch- 

 Rocks I saw murres and cormorants, and puffins 

 and guillemots, and stormy petrels, and gulls liv- 

 ing in colonies, tens of thousands of them, 

 crowded together on the bare rocks just as tight 

 as they could squeeze. 



No city tenement was ever crowded with dwell- 

 ers as was each of these three huge rocks. It 

 seemed to me that there must have been a hun- 

 dred thousand pairs of birds housekeeping on 

 each of those rocks houses of a hundred thou- 

 sand doors. 



But the most interesting thing about the 

 crowded life in these vast tenements was. the liv- 

 ing, side by side, up on the bare wind-swept sum- 

 mit, of the cormorants and gulls, sworn enemies. 

 Sworn enemies, I say, yet both kinds of colonies 

 were thriving. Nevertheless, let the mother or 



