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. They 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- 



