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Throughout the day, feathered mowers were rarely 

 absent from the field, sometimes as many as nine birds being 

 present. The denuded area from which the grass had been 

 removed, was as bare and as sharply-defined from that por- 

 tion of the crop which the Cormorants had not yet gathered, 

 as though it had been mowed and raked by a human harves- 

 ter. 



On June 9, a second attempt was made to land on the 

 Cormorant rock here but, like the first, it failed. The birds 

 now had eggs. 



Brandt's Cormorant 



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