Show j—jate -- - m 192 is accessible to coyotes so numerous Carrington and Stan3bury making it an unsafe place for because the island on now nests Egg so named by Stansbury (April Island large numbers of birds cause of the and 9 1850) be- nests found there is nothing more than a huge pile of rocks 50 yards long and 40 It is located just off the north tip of Antelope yards wide herons It is literally covered with nests of gulls blue and black cormorants being the only place in the Island22 lake where the latter of the lake (1873) now nest During the high water period this little island was almost completely lost in the briny deep during heavy storms it was completely This tiny island has had numerous visitors chiefsubmerged ly for the purpose of studying bird life Often such visits 23 to the have resulted in serious damage nesting grounds Island is a small spot of land immediately north of Gunnison Stansbury did not deem it worth while to call it by a separate name but talked of Gunnison Island as conCub sisting of two islands the tiny one lying a few hundred When the lake is in a low yards north of the larger one cycle Cub is connected to Gunnison by a sandbar It is of no and particular value 22 Supra 23 V Salt Lake" H p its only interest has been as a 154 Behle "Status of the Cormorants of Great 79 cmgp |