250 BIRD-LIFE OF THE BORDERS. 



kinds are fairly numerous ; in others one may hardly see half 

 a dozen all through the winter. They are found, hoth inside 

 the estuaries, where they fish in the sandy "guts," and 

 perhaps more plentifully on the open sea. Grebes often 

 associate into little flocks, but the Divers are usually 

 solitary. 



Cormorant, — A pair of these birds, shot right and left 

 at day-break one winter's morning by i\Ir. Crawhall, weighed 

 together no less than 17 lbs. — a surprising mass of bird-flesh 

 to bring down with a double shot of a l*2-bore ! The larger 

 bird, a ' champion ' Cormorant, turned the scale at 10 lbs. 



