. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . digest. Wlten we see himand know his wa_\S, we realize the loiig-sutfering of the great mother, and theboundless jMTwision she has made for her hungry children. Cormorants of thirt\--fi\-e species range along the hundred thousandleagues of earths shore-line, well distributed in all save Arctic and .tarticwaters; and tlie\- constitute the mightiest race of fishers ever known. sa\e thoseborn of the teeming waters themselves. The ])iscatorial [jeculations of men areas a dot besi
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . digest. Wlten we see himand know his wa_\S, we realize the loiig-sutfering of the great mother, and theboundless jMTwision she has made for her hungry children. Cormorants of thirt\--fi\-e species range along the hundred thousandleagues of earths shore-line, well distributed in all save Arctic and .tarticwaters; and tlie\- constitute the mightiest race of fishers ever known. sa\e thoseborn of the teeming waters themselves. The ])iscatorial [jeculations of men areas a dot beside their unceasing pillage: yet we do not begrudge the Cormorantsthe of their ancient rights. Their tastes are less fastidious than ours,and there are still more fisli in the sea than e\er were Talten on the Crcinille Arch, one of the Olymi-iadcs. Photo by the Author. NEST .\Nn KGGS OF THi; WHITlC-CKKSTf;D THE WHITE-CRESTED CORMORANT. 845 Our own cormorants are to be found chiefly upon the Olympiades (pro-nounced Olyiiif^iah dec;:), and in the coastal waters, where alone birds of thiswhite-crested species breed. A few colonies of Baird Cormorants exist on tiieislands of the lower Sound, but the White-crest occurs only in the winter sea-son, and then in hmited numbers, east of the entrance ti> the Straits of Juande Fuca. White-crests usually prepare their complement of eggs during tlie firstweek in I\la}-, and therefore are the earliest nesters of the three local nests are inwiriably Imilt of sticks, chiefly those culled fnmi the beach. Tliere is no proper lining, but \arious soft substances,like bark, moss, sea-weed, rags, and feathers, areinciirporated in the structure, which is always placedin an exposed situation, tlie crest of a sliarp ridgeor
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