. Bird lore . THE CONDOR ^%JZ& Edited by J. GRINNELL OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COOPER ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUBVolume 10 {igo8) Better Than Ever Half-tones from Life ~) The Delight of Bird Students and Articles by Active Ornithologists [■ Bjrd Lovers everywhere Make-up j PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY Annual subscription, , net, in advance. Single copies, 30c. Foreign subscription, $ J. EUGENE LAW, Business Manager, HOLLYWOOD, tsoa 1. Derby Flycatcher 2. Beardless Flycatcher 3. Olive-sided Flycatcher 4. Couess Flycatcher A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OP BIRDS Vol. X Novem
. Bird lore . THE CONDOR ^%JZ& Edited by J. GRINNELL OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COOPER ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUBVolume 10 {igo8) Better Than Ever Half-tones from Life ~) The Delight of Bird Students and Articles by Active Ornithologists [■ Bjrd Lovers everywhere Make-up j PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY Annual subscription, , net, in advance. Single copies, 30c. Foreign subscription, $ J. EUGENE LAW, Business Manager, HOLLYWOOD, tsoa 1. Derby Flycatcher 2. Beardless Flycatcher 3. Olive-sided Flycatcher 4. Couess Flycatcher A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OP BIRDS Vol. X November—December, 1908 No. 6 The Sea Birds Fortress By A. C. BENT WAY off in the middle of the stormy, fog-bound Gulf of St. Lawrencestands lonely Bird Rock, twenty-five miles north of the MagdalenIslands and sixty miles from Cape Breton. It forms the northeastern end of a chain of dangerous ledges, lying in thepath of vessels passing in and out of the St. Lawrence River, and is importantenough to be protected by a first-class lighthouse. Its red sandstone cliffs risefor a hundred feet or more straight up from the sea, and even on the smoothestday the waves thunder against its base, as they rise and fall with the ocean swell. The only human inhabitants of this isolated rock are the lighthouse keeperand his family. They are visited twice a year by the government supply boat,bringing provisions, newspapers and mail, b
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