PERCE AND BONAVENTURE 133 
At this point it should be stated that my photo- 
graphic outfit consisted of an ancient but useful 
4x5 “Waterbury Detective,’ containing a wide 
angle, short-focus lens, and designed for general 
handwork; a 4 x 5 long-focus “ Premo” with a 63- 
inch trade lens and Unicum shutter, for use from a 
tripod or in photographing nests, landscapes, etc., 
and a 5 X 7 twin lens with a 10-inch lens and Prosch 
shutter, a camera made especially for animal pho- 
tography, but which was undesirably bulky. 
None of these was of service in photographing 
the inhabitants of Percé Rock from the land, nor 
could a telephoto be used to advantage, the Rock 
being so much higher than the adjoining mainland. 
From a boat near the base of the southeast side of 
the Rock a better opportunity is afforded for pho- 
tographing its summit, and the best of several at- 
tempts made at this point is here presented.” Ex- 
amined under a glass it conveys some idea of the 
number of birds occupying the top of the Rock; and 
while one regrets that the camera does so little jus- 
tice to the subject, one can not but rejoice that here, 
at least, is one place to which probably for all time 
birds may return each year and rear their young in 
perfect security. 
In crevices in the face of the Rock numbers of 
Guillemots nest, and directly above the pierced 
opening dwella colony of about thirty Kittiwakes, 
who have apparently taken up their residence in the 
Rock within comparatively recent years, since none 
were here in 1881 when Mr. William Brewster vis- 
ited Percé. 
Wherever one be about Percé, in the town or 
