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wholesale collecting of eggs and wanton killing of birds by 
fishermen, combined with the results of firing the gun-cotton 
bombs, which have superseded the cannon, are causing a con- 
tinued diminution in the number of birds inhabiting the Rock, 
THE LANDING ON TOP OF THE ROCK, SHOWING CRANE. 
(From “ Bird Studies with a Camera,” by permission of D. Appleton & Co.) 
and unless the Canadian Government soon takes proper steps to 
afford them protection, it is quite probable that in time only a 
fraction of their present numbers will remain. To make, there- 
fore, a permanent record of this characteristic phase of island life 
