the Condor 
A MAGAZINE OF WESTERN ORNITHOLOGY 
Bi-Monthly Bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club 
Vol. 4. No. 3. Santa Clara, Cal., May-June, 1902. $1.00 a Year 
Among the Sea Birds of the Oregon Coast. 
liV WlhhIAM 1,. FINhKY. 
A bout forty miles south of the 
mouth of the Columbia River and 
two miles out from the entrance of 
Netarts Bay are three large rocks. 
These are the homes of countless num- 
bers of sea-birds and as the bird life 
there had never been disturbed to any 
Netarts was one of interest to a bird 
crank because in the coast mountains 
we found breeding, such birds as the 
varied thrush, pileolated warbler, Or- 
egon jay, Vaux swift, pileated wood- 
pecker, western evening grosbeak and 
in the dwarfed shrubbery down by the 
PHOTO BY H. T. BOHLMAN. 
THE BIRD ROCKS AT A DISTANCE 
extent we determined, if possible, to 
make a trip to the rocks and ascertain 
what species were breeding. There 
were four in the party including Mr. 
Herman T. Bohlman, who did the pho- 
tographic work, and myself. The trip 
overland last year from Portland to 
seashore we found the wren-tit. We 
also saw a flock of cross-bills but no 
sign of their nesting. 
We reached the coast the last of May 
and spent the first two weeks of June 
at the sea-shore. The weather was very 
unsettled at that time and it was rather 
