136 CORMORANT, 



These rare birds having been obtained so near to our borders, 

 it is of great interest to mention them. 



I think he'll be to Rome, 

 As is the Osprey to the fish, who takes it, 

 By sovereignty of nature. 



Shakespeare— Co?-io/anu«, /F., 7. 



Hawk and Osprey screamed for joy. 



Scott— ^aroW. 



She brings us fish— she brings us Spring, 

 Good times, fair weather, warmth, and plenty, 



Fine store of shad, trout, herring, ling, 



Sheepshead, and drum, and old wives dainty. 

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" God bless the Fish -hawk, and the Fisher." 



A. WiLBOJf— The Osprey. 



Order— STEGANOPODES. 



Family— PELECANID^. 



Genus— PHALACROCORAX. 



PHALACROCORAX CARBO— Cormorant. 



The hote Cormorant full of gluttonie. 



Chaucer. 



And Cormoyrants with birds of ravenous race, 

 Which still sat way ting on the wastful cliflf 

 For spoil of wrackes. 



Spenser— i^'aerie Queene. 



On distant waves the Raven of the sea, 

 The Cormorant devours her carrion food, 



Grahame — Birds of Scotland. 



The greedy Cormorant. 



Quarles — History of Summer. 



Notwithstanding the hard things said of him by poets, the 

 Great, or Black Cormorant, in its summer plumage, is a very 

 handsome bird. Its crested head, so hoary looking, from the long 

 thin white feathers which project from the dark ones beneath ; its 

 hooked beak, the upper mandible being turned sharply down over 

 the lower one ; its glossy bronze back, with green or purple 

 metallic tinted edging to the feathers ; its white thighs, and its 

 general appearance and size, render it a very remarkable bird. In 



