1922] 



SHROSBREE, COLLECTING ON BONAVENTURE ISLAND 



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during which time Mr. Stoddard had been over several times, collecting 

 young birds and operating the motion picture camera, we were joined 

 by Dr. W. D. Richardson, of Chicago, who brought a harness, made 

 for himself, and of a larger size than Mr. Stoddard's. This, Dr. 

 Richardson "very generously" offered to loan me, completely destroying 

 my nicely prepared "alibi." Accordingly, I slipped into the harness 





Fig. 15. — Dr. \\ . \). Ivichardsoii descending ihe clitt, i)\- means of the rope, to 

 the Gannet nesting ledges. BonavenUire Island. 



and was lowered over the edge of the cliff to the nesting ledges below. 

 Here I had a wonderful reception from the thousands of Gannets. and 

 I then realized how much I would have missed if I had not gone. A 

 very small section of these ledges is shown in figure 16, where nests, 

 eggs, young of various ages, adults on the nests and others in several 

 characteristic flights are shown. 



The Gannet ledges are composed of conglomerate and dark red 

 shale of Carboniferous age, which, in fact, seems to be the composition 

 of the entire Island as well as of the Magdalen Islands and of Mt. 

 St. Anne, a high mountain rising immediately behind Perce village 

 on the main land. The ledges are very slippery, especially when wet, 



