The White-Wixc;ed Fleet 



human ownership, and the Gulls, — as now are the 

 Gulls and Terns on all the principal breeding- 

 islands from Virginia to Maine, — are rigorously 

 protected by law and by wardens. This is as it 



"OTHERS PERCHED UPON THE SPRUCE - TREES.' HERRING GULLS, IN A 

 MAINE ISLAND COLONY. BY W . L. BAILY 



should have been long before. "No Man's Land" 

 is another of the picturesque, rugged, spruce-clad 

 islands typical of this coast. As we approach it, 

 we begin to see a horde of circling birds, hun- 

 dreds of them gathered in groups on the rocks, 

 and others perched upon the spruce-trees. Then, 



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