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THE CONDOR 



Vol. X 



and Silversides (the outermost member of the north line of the Point-of-the-Arches 

 group). The largest colony, numbering several thousand, appears on Wishaloolth 

 (unfortunately listed in the Executive order as "Bald Island". The name is un- 

 pardonable because of its banality. Please do not repeat it), which is a mountain 

 range in miniature and one of the most weirdly picturesque of the Olympiades. A 

 modest estimate of the total number of this species among the Olympiades is 

 10,000. 



Like the Westerns the Glaucous-wings have suffered much from Indian depre- 

 dations. The Si wash has been reared on gull omelette or gull fricassee or both at 

 once, and the deprivation will undoubtedly work some hardship. The Quileutes 

 and Ozettes are, however, for the most part, peaceful, law-abiding folk, and I have 

 found them highly trustworthy. 



Phalacrocorax diiophus cincinnatus. White-crested Cormorant. Something 

 like a dozen colonies were found, confined of necessity in each case to the sharp 

 ridges or to the barren acropolis itself. North Rock affords a typical instance. 



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wishaloolth: site of the largest glaucous-winged gull colony; 

 quillayute needles reservation 



Photo by W. Leon Dawson 



Here on the very summit occurs the largest coloii}^ of the coast, numbering near a 

 hundred pairs. 



The Shags have suffered not a little from the native egg hunters, but they 

 have suffered more from Ravens. Curiously enough, I know of no instance in 

 which their eggs or young have been molested by Glaucous- winged Gulls. 



P. penicillatus. . Brandt Cormorant. Four colonies were found, one of some 

 fifty birds on the summit of Grenville Arch; one of fifty on Ghost Rock (not 

 "Cohort" Rock—z'tde "Pacific Monthly", April 1907, p. 381); one of fifty-eight 

 on the crest of Jagged Islet, since deserted; and one of about the same number as 

 the last on "the pinnacle" (Paahwoke-it) west of Carroll. 



P. pelagicus resplendens. Baird's Cormorant. The Baird Cormorant is the 

 ubiquitous bird of the Olympiades. Not a sea-wall but has some niche or pedestal 

 or boss, where this intrepid shag may "lay her young" — intrepid, that is, where 

 only the sea is concerned, but timorous past all reason before mankind, She 



