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Bird - Lore 



July 25. — After an all-day sail through 

 squalls and light winds, we made Dutcher's 

 Island an hour before sundown. An ex- 

 amination of this reservation showed that 

 .all the Louisiana Herons had left their 

 tnests. Of old and young there were fully 

 4,000. There were about twenty Snowy 

 Herons on the island. There were about 

 1,500 Gulls about the island at the time 

 •of this visit. 



July 26. — Stormy all day; fearing very 

 heavy weather outside, Captain Sprinkle 

 .advised returning to Pass Christian, where 

 we arrived at 2.30 p. m., having left Dutch- 

 -er's Island at 7 A. m., and being unable 

 to visit Little Deadman Islands, 10 to 55 in 

 Eloi Bay, Islands 4 to 9 in Morgan Har- 

 bor, Mitchell's Key, Sam Holmes, Brush 

 and Sundown Islands. Estimates made 

 by Captain Sprinkle of the number of 

 birds present on these various islands at 

 the time of his previous inspection are 

 ■given below: 



July 15. — Sundown Island: 500 

 Laughing Gulls' nests, eggs all hatched; 

 aoo Foster's Terns' nests, young birds 

 ;all flown. 



July 15. — Brush Island: 200 Laughing 

 Gulls' nests, eggs all hatched; 500 Skim- 

 mers' nests, eggs all hatched. 



July 16. — Sam Holmes Island: 1,000 

 Laughing Gulls 1 nests, eggs all hatched. 



July 16. — Mitchell' 's Key: 200 Skim- 

 mers' nests, eggs all hatched; 100 Laugh- 

 ing Gulls' nests, eggs all hatched. 



July 16. — Islands 4 and 5, Morgan Har- 

 bor: 300 Louisiana Herons' nests, eggs 

 .all hatched, young commencing to fly; 

 2,000 Laughing Gulls' nests, eggs all 

 hatched; 50 Grosbeaks' nests (Black- 

 •crowned Night Heron), eggs all hatched; 

 75 Forstef's Terns' nests, young flying. 



July 16. — Islands 6 to 9, Morgan Har- 

 bor: 12,000 Laughing Gulls' nests, eggs 

 all hatched; 1,300 Louisiana Herons' 

 nests, young flying; 300 Forster's Terns, 

 young flying; 12 .Snowy Herons' nests, 

 young all grown. 



July 17. — Islands 10 to 15, Eloi Bay: 

 4,700 Laughing Gulls 1 nests, eggs all 

 lhatched. 



July 17. — Little D.eadman's Island: 



200 Laughing Gulls' nests, eggs all hatched; 

 25 Caspian Terns' nests, eggs all hatched. 



Summary of birds bred on islands of 

 Breton and Louisiana Audubon Reser- 

 vations, 1908: 



Black Skimmer — 



' Martin's Island Key 225 



Battledore 1,600 



Mitchell's Key 200 



Brush Island 500 



2,525 

 Laughing Gull — 



Battledore 2,000 



Dutcher's Island i,5°° 



Little Deadman's Island 500 



Islands 10 to 15, Eloi Bay.. .. 10,000 

 Island 4 and 5, Morgan Harbor 4,000 

 Islands 6 to 9, Morgan Harbor. 25,000 



Mitchell's Key 200 



Sam Holmes' Island 2,000 



Brush Island 400 



Sundown Island 1,000 



46,600 

 Royal Tern — 



Southwest Harbor Key 2,500 



Battledore 2,000 



4,5°° 

 Cabot's Tern — 



Southwest Harbor Key 2,500 



Battledore 500 



3,000 

 Caspian Tern — - 



Battledore 20 



Little Deadman 25 



45 

 Forster's Tern — 



Sundown Island 125 



Islands 4 and 5, Morgan Harbor 100 

 Islands 6 to 9, Morgan Harbor. 400 



Least Tern — 

 Barrel Key 



625 

 5° 



Snowy Heron — 



Dutcher's Island 



Island No. 7 (Job's Island). 



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