. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Farallon Cormorant is really not a conspicuous nesting site. The colony which occupies the south exposure of the summit of Roundtop fluctuates in size from year to year, having suffered severely of late from the depredations of the Western Gulls. When I visited the place in May, 1911, it had dwindled to about forty pairs. Since the desertion of the famous Seal Rocks, off Golden Gate Park, by the Steller sea-lion, they have been occupied by a po
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Farallon Cormorant is really not a conspicuous nesting site. The colony which occupies the south exposure of the summit of Roundtop fluctuates in size from year to year, having suffered severely of late from the depredations of the Western Gulls. When I visited the place in May, 1911, it had dwindled to about forty pairs. Since the desertion of the famous Seal Rocks, off Golden Gate Park, by the Steller sea-lion, they have been occupied by a populous colony of "; Scarcely a more conspicuous or instructive example of the home life of sea-birds could be presented than is there afforded to the countless throngs who visit the Cliff House every summer. In particular, the nesting of 1915 was spectacular, and those tourists who came provided with good binoculars needed no after sight of the excellent habitat group prepared by Messrs. Rowley and Fair for the Museum of the California Academy of Science. The Farallon Cormorant is even better known as a habitant and visitant of interior waters than as a sea-bird. It occupies rookeries in Tule Lake, Eagle Lake, Clear Lake (in Lake County), and along the flooded banks of both the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers. Most notable, perhaps, is its occurrence on Salton Sea. The trough of the de- pression formerly known as Salton Sink was occupied by a heavy growth of mesquite. The great body of water formed by the overflow of the Colorado River in 1905-1907, which attained a maximum depth of nearly a hundred feet, overwhelmed this 1 forest, but the water is now subsiding at the. Taken on the Sallon Sea Photo by the Author A FLEET OF SUBMARINES A CORMORANT RIDES VERY LOW ON THE WATER 1946. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may n
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