Nov., 1905 | AMONG THE SEA BIRDS OFF THE OREGON COAST, PART II 
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hundred yards to the two inner rocks. The ridge of the middle rock is held almost 
entirely by a colony of Farallone cormorants, while the smallest shelves far up the 
sides of both the inner rocks are the homes of the Baird cormorant. The Farallone 
cormorant, it seems, is not satisfied with a grass nest, but it collects a lot of sticks, 
that have been worn smooth by the waves, and works them in for a foundation. 
The young of this species is easily distinguished from the others by its bright 
yellow throat-pouch. 
BRANDT CORMORANTS, THREE ARCH ROQKS, OREGON 
The cormorants seemed to suffer most from the raids of the gulls. The instant 
a gull alights near a cormorant’s nest, the owner of the nest takes the defensive 
by spreading her wide, black wings in a protecting canopy over her eggs or 
young. She darts her long, hooked bill at the intruder, who calmly composes his 
feathers and settles down into a statuesque silence. Gradually the fears are quieted 
in the black mother’s breast, her wings relax to their normal position, as the sup- 
