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Bird - Lore 



Early in the year the Committee requested Messrs. Finley and Bohl- 

 man, the well-known bird photographers and nature writers, to furnish a 

 report of the conditions of the bird colonies on the Oregon coast. The 

 report is so interesting that it is given in full: 



"We have visited the majority of rocks which are scattered along the 

 coast from the mouth of the Columbia south to the California line, and we 

 find that by far the most important rookeries are to be found on the 'Three 

 Arch Rocks,' which are situated near the entrance of Netarts Bay, practi- 

 cally two miles north of the same, and probably ten or fifteen miles south 

 of the entrance of Tillamock Bay. The rocks consist of a group of three 



BRANDT'S CORMORANTS ON THE ARCH ROCKS, COAST OF OREGON 

 Photographed by Finley and Bohlman 



large rocks, and a few unimportant smaller ones, and are a mile ofi shore. 

 The one to the right is three hundred and four feet high and about eight 

 hundred feet long, while the one to the left is of about the same area, the 

 center one being somewhat smaller and more precipitous. These rocks are 

 densely populated, principally by California Murres, of which there are ten 

 or twelve large rookeries and a large number of smaller ones; the large 

 rookeries, it is estimated, contain between five and ten thousand individuals 

 each, which gives a Murre population, at a conservative estimate, of 

 seventy-five thousand individuals. 



"There are three large rookeries of Cormorants, probably four or five 

 hundred birds in each; the rock to the left is inhabited almost entirely by 

 Brandt's Cormorants, while on the middle rock are found the Farallone 



