. Bird-lore . e morethan three or four feet above ordinary high tide. 2. Caroline Cut Island.—This small island is a portion of Isle is not named separately on the government charts. It lies west of a pass knownlocally as Carolines Cut. 236 Bird- Lore I visited this island June 3 and June 20. At the time of the second visit,Black Skimmers had begun to nest freely. There were about 750 of these burds•on or about this island. Over 200 nests were found. No other birds were foundnesting here, although 150 Royal Terns, 200 117///^ Pelicans and 300 BrownPelicans were seen. The extent of
. Bird-lore . e morethan three or four feet above ordinary high tide. 2. Caroline Cut Island.—This small island is a portion of Isle is not named separately on the government charts. It lies west of a pass knownlocally as Carolines Cut. 236 Bird- Lore I visited this island June 3 and June 20. At the time of the second visit,Black Skimmers had begun to nest freely. There were about 750 of these burds•on or about this island. Over 200 nests were found. No other birds were foundnesting here, although 150 Royal Terns, 200 117///^ Pelicans and 300 BrownPelicans were seen. The extent of this island is about eight acres. There are aiew raccoons on it, but otherwise it is an admirable site for nesting. 3. East Timbalier.—Nesting, except among he Black Skimmers, was infull progress while I was at this island, June 5 to 7. There were present ,500 Laughing Gulls, 5,500 Black Skimmers, 1,750 Louisiana Herons, 8 or 10Snowy Herons, and 6 or 8 Black-crowned Night Herons. Very few Skimmers. YOUXG BROWN PELIC.\>-S ON MUD LUMP, S. W. PASS, MISSISSIPPI RIVER nests were found, but the Laughing Gulls and Louisiana Herons were nestingfreely. The Gulls nest chiefly at the western end of the island, the Herons chieflyat the eastern end. The area of the island is about 50 acres. It is making atthe eastern end, and washing at the western end. East Timbalier has theheaviest vegetation of any of the seaward islands, yet raccoons do not appear tobe present. Other birds seen here were about 200 Royal Terns and 500 Brown Pelicans. 4. North Pass Mud Lumps (All the mud lumps are now a Reservation).—These lumps are about a mile directly off the pass. Their bearing from Pass aLOutre light is N. N. E. On two of these lumps, the larger of the two beingonly about one hundred feet across, the following birds were nesting: 25 Laughing Report of Exploration of Seabird Colonies 237 Gulls, 25 Royal Terns, 50 Forsters Terns, 75 Caspian Terns and 20 BrownPelicans. A stop was made
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