Guide leaflet . rther than our Atlantic coast to be convinced thatwere it not for islands we should long ago have lost a numberof birds which now never nest on the adjoining mainland. I orexample, practically all our remaining Terns or Sea Swallcnow breed only on islands, the remaining large colonies of thesebirds off the New York and Massachusetts coasts being found on 5 The Bird Rock Group. Gardiners, Fishers, Muskeget, and Penikese Islands. MarthasVineyard, between the two last named, contains the sole survivorsof the Heath Hen or Eastern Prairie Chicken (see gallery, case J).Certain islets
Guide leaflet . rther than our Atlantic coast to be convinced thatwere it not for islands we should long ago have lost a numberof birds which now never nest on the adjoining mainland. I orexample, practically all our remaining Terns or Sea Swallcnow breed only on islands, the remaining large colonies of thesebirds off the New York and Massachusetts coasts being found on 5 The Bird Rock Group. Gardiners, Fishers, Muskeget, and Penikese Islands. MarthasVineyard, between the two last named, contains the sole survivorsof the Heath Hen or Eastern Prairie Chicken (see gallery, case J).Certain islets along the coast of Maine form suitable homes forHerring Gulls (see gallery, case B), and going farther north,into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, we find several rocky islets, which,either because of their isolation or precipitousness, are idealresorts for sea-fowl. Chief among these is Bird Rock. Bird Rock, and its neighbor Little Bird Rock, belong to theMagdalen Group, and are situated fifty miles northwest of Cape. MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF THE BIRD ROCKS. Breton, the nearest mainland, and twelve miles east of BryonIsland, the nearest member of the same group. It is 351 yardslong, from 50 to 140 yards wide, and rises abruptly from the seato a height of from 80 to 140 feet. Its vertical rocky walls areweathered into innumerable ridges, shelves, and crevices — fitsites for the nests of the sea birds which for centuries have made
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