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A CORMORANT ROOKERY. 



fish to eat. This applies to the three 

 species. I have seen in a rookery of 

 Brandt's Cormorant many little fish scat- 

 tered about the nest, which the Western 

 Gulls were endeavoring, with some success, 

 to make away with. While watching the 

 Gulls the Cormorants must keep an eye on 

 each other, for sometimes one bird will 

 steal the nesting material of another. The 

 nests are coarsely constructed. In the 

 rookery here reterrel to they were of Faral- 

 lon weed, al^^-ae and sea moss. Some 

 varieties of the moss were pulled up, I 

 believe, by the birds from under the water, 

 and it occurred to me at the time that a 

 collector of sea moss could not do better 

 than visit a Cormorant rookery. 



The Cormorants' egg is not valuable 

 except to secure the shell for some collec- 

 tor's cabinet. The yelk has a peculiar 

 reddish, almost bloody appearance, and 

 possesses a very fishy odor. I have never 



seen a Gull eat one, and what a Gull will 

 not eat may be set down as bevond the 

 capacity of the human. 



H. R, Taylor. 



Cory's Least Bittern at Toronto. 



Mr. G. F. Dippie writes: " Perhaps it 

 would interest you to know that a fine fe- 

 male specimen of Cory 's Least Bittern was 

 taken here on Ma^^ 20. This is the sec- 

 ond record of this rare species for Toronto. 

 Another specimen, also a female, was ob- 

 tained last year on the 22nd of May," 



The Wilson's Ornithological Club was 

 organized at San Bernardino, Cal., June 9. 

 1894, The following officers were elected: 

 President, Edward Wall, San Bernardino; 

 Vice President, Wesley Bead, Colton; Sec- 

 retary, Arthur Whiting, San Bernardino; 

 Treasurer, E. D, Palmer, San Bernardino. 



