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Till". \\lllTlvCRKSTI-:i) C( »R.M' "RANT, 



LAXI )S.\ll-'..\ art' >U>\y tn realize llie tcrlility nf ilic sea. Its great c.k- 

 ])aiise is so little hmken at the surt'ace 1)\- the irruptiun (if life, that we cannot 

 casilv ceimi)relien(l the vast anel varied resources either of its depth.s or of its 

 teeming shallows. The Ciulls. the (jooneys, and the ]\Ian-of-\\'ar iJirds serve 

 to heighten this su])erlicial impression which we get of ocean's scanty fare, for 

 we find them tra\elliiig a league for a bite, and a day's journey for a full meal. 

 Not so, however, with the Cormorant. Here is a bird the very symbol of 

 voracitw bmlt lo seize and swallow and sjicedil}' digest. W'lten we see him 

 and know his wa_\'S, we realize the loiig-sutfering of the great mother, and the 

 boundless jMTwision she has made for her hungry children. 



Cormorants of thirt\--fi\-e species range along the hundred thousand 

 leagues of earth's shore-line, well distributed in all save Arctic and .\ntartic 

 waters; and tlie\- constitute the mightiest race of fishers ever known. sa\e those 

 born of the teeming waters themselves. The ])iscatorial [jeculations of men are 

 as a dot beside their unceasing pillage: yet we do not begrudge the Cormorants 

 the e.xercise of their ancient rights. Their tastes are less fastidious than ours, 

 and there are still more fisli in the sea than e\er were caught. 



Talten on the Crcinille Arch, one of the Olymi-iadcs. Photo by the Author. 



NEST .\Nn KGGS OF THi; WHITlC-CKKSTf;D CORMOR.VNT. 



