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as their only rivals, and destroyed their eggs and young. 

 But the prevailing conditions afford protection for the 

 Mnrres and Mnrres' enemies alike. Evidently even among 

 birds, a solicitous Government cannot extend protection 

 only to those who need it. Law for the Murre is law for the 

 Gull; and the Farallone Gulls' Trust now enjoys a monop- 

 oly of Farallone egg products, which those concerned in the 

 passage of the law never intended it should have. 



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Telephoto of Brandt's Cormorants 



Notwithstanding the fact that it is most frequently rob- 

 bed by the Gulls, Brandt's Cormorant is by far the most 

 abundant of the three species of Cormorants which breed 

 upon the Farallones. Building in exposed situations, it left 

 its nest when T was so far away that satisfactory pictures 

 of it could be secured only with a telephoto, and the Gulls 

 were given abundant opportunity to make a clean sweep of 

 the unguarded eggs. Both Baird's and the Farallone Cor- 



