Three centuries later, Audubon, whose energy in exploration no 

 ornithologist has ever surpassed, visited this colony and was duly im- 

 pressed with its wonders, though the freshening wind prevented him 

 from landing on the rock itself. 



Then evil days fell upon this bird metropolis; fishermen commenced 

 to visit it to obtain birds and eggs for food and birds for bait; a light- 

 house was erected and. within ten years, the Gannet population of 

 100,000, which, seen from a distance, had caused Audubon to think 

 that this rock was covered with snow, was swept from the top of the rock. 

 To-day. though still one of the ornithological wonders of our Atlantic 

 coast, the colony is but a shadow of its former self. Fortunately, in 

 March, 1919, the Rock was made a bird sanctuary by the Canadian 

 Parliament and under protection its population should increase. 



Bird Bock from the Southwest 

 Distanee about one-half mile 



! From "Bird Studies with a Camera," by permission of D. Appleton & Co.) 



