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to my experience, one would not expect to find the cor- 

 morant here except as a casual visitor, as the locality with 

 its strong tides, deep water, and rough rock-bound coast 

 is not suited to it. A cormorant's natural habitats are 

 shallow land-locked bays, and shallow muddy harbours and 

 estuaries. 



Phalacrocorax graculus. The 8hag. 



A coannon resident breeding here in some numbers, and 

 as in most green water situations, taking the place o£ the 

 cormorant. 



I cannot understand how Mr. Eagle Clarke failed to 

 observe it here in September 1898^ as I cannot recall having 

 ever failed to find several when I wished to, either feeding 

 in the tide-way, or, as is often their habit, obtaining their 

 food from the seaweed on the rocks exposed at low water. 



Sula bassana. Th(^ Gannet. 



This bird is not often seen near the shore, althouoh it is a 

 regular visitor outside the breeding-season, and usually in 

 winter. 



In December 1912 an immature bird was found on the 

 golf links here with a broken wing and was killed by the 

 man in charge of the links. It had doubtless tried conclusions 

 with a telephone wire. 



On the 8th of December, 1918, T was so fortunate as to have 

 under close observation for some time from a point of vantage 

 on shore, an adult male of this species. It was fishing at the 

 entrance to Longy Bay, and I was on the top of an old fort 

 overlooking and within 150 yards of it. The water was 

 extremely clear and the surface smooth, and I could distinctly 

 see the bird's movements under water. In one of its dives 

 it turned through a considerable angle just beneath the 

 surface, apparently by aid of its wings, and in order to follow 

 its })rey. On another occasion it entered the water ahnost 

 horizontally at great speed, and moving rapidly just below 

 the surface, either with its remaining velocity, or perhaps by 

 use of its feet — it did not ai)pear to use its wino-s — emeroed 

 from the water not less than 8 or 10 feet from the point of 



