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with a dip net. The Murres and some of the Puffins were pulled out 

 of their holes. Out of sixty-seven adult birds, only about fifteen were 

 shot, these being immature Gannets of a year or two old, some Puffins, 

 Kittiwakes, Guillemots and one Rock Ptarmigan. The last named 

 specimen, I believe, is the first record for the Gaspe Peninsula and 

 Bonaventure Island. This bird I shot with a twenty-two caliber rifle 

 at the edge of the woods about three hundred feet back from the Gan- 

 net ledges. All the birds caught alive were chloroformed. At one 



Fig. 17. — Adult Gannct on nest. Bonaventure Lskmd. 



place where the rocks above project a sufficient distance to allow a 

 view of the outer face of the ledges, we noticed a horizontal crevice 

 about five feet below the top, packed full of Razorbills and Murres. I 

 saw a chance of making a good haul, if the idea that came to me then 

 would work. The next morning I got Duval to cut a piece about 

 twelve feet square ofif of an old fish net he had discarded. We then 

 tied a rope along one edge allowing about twelve feet of rope at each 

 side. This edge we weighted with rocks. We tied ropes at the sides, 

 allowing enough for one man to hold when the net was thrown over. 



We had marked the spot above the crevice, and it took four men to 

 handle the net, one at each end of the lower rope and one at each of 



