The Bird Rock Group. 



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wholesale collecting of eggs and wanton killing of birds by 

 -men, 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bombs, which have superseded the cannon, are causing a con- 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, 



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THE LANDING ON TOP OF THE ROCK, SHOWING CRANE. 

 (From " Bird Studies with a Camera," by permisM D I I ». A; , 



and unless the Canadian Government soon takes proper ttC\ 

 afford them )>rotection, it is quite probable that in time only a 

 fraction of their present numbers will remain. To make, there- 

 lent record of this characteristic p land life 



