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Labrador, although its breeding area appears to have been confined 

 to one locality. Constant persecution has greatly diminished its ranks, 

 although it still breeds in the same places. 



Audubon said that the Gannet arrived at Chateau Bay about the 

 middle of May, but he did not find any breeding birds. Bryant, in 

 1860, said that the Gannet was known to breed at only three places 

 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, namely, at Bird Rock, at an island near 

 Gaspe, 1 "and at Gannet Rocks near Mingan, which will soon be 

 deserted by those birds in consequence of the depredations of the 

 fishermen." 



Coues, in 1860, refers to Gannet Rocks as follows: "On the first 

 of July our proximity to the celebrated Gannet Rocks was clearly 

 indicated by the numbers of these birds seen flying in every direction, 

 engaged in seeking for food, which consists principally or wholly of 

 fish. . . .Again, on the 11th of September, on our return we saw many 

 Gannets ; but though on both these occasions we passed within fifty 

 miles or less, of the rocks, I was denied the pleasure of observing the 

 birds at their great breeding place." 



Brewster, in 1881, visited this same colony near Mingan which he 

 states bred on Paroqueet Island. He says it "was despoiled the 

 day before we landed by Indians, who did their work so thoroughly 

 that only empty nests and occasional broken eggs remained to mark 

 the spot where less than a week before we had seen hundreds of birds 

 sitting in fancied security." 



Frazar, in 1884, states that with the exception of this colony, there 

 were "no other colonies at least as far as the Straits of Belle Isle." 

 Lucas, in 1887, visited this colony and found "a few Gannets. . . .in 

 spite of the incessant persecution of the Indians who regularly make 

 a clean sweep there." 



Near Indian Tickle just south of Hamilton Inlet, is an island which 

 bears the name of Gannet Island. Neither Cartwright nor Coues 

 who were familiar with this region, mentions any Gannets there. 

 We saw a few Gannets on the southern side of the Straits of Belle Isle, 

 but none on the Labrador coast. 



Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.). 



Cormorant. 

 Common summer resident locally in south. 



1 Byrant inadvertently located this colony at Perce Rock instead of the nearby 

 Bonaventure Island. 



