CORMORANTS 125 



fishing by means of cormorants was considered good 

 sport, and the royal household used to have its 

 Master of the Cormorants. 



Cormorants' eggs are of a very pale green colour, and 

 their nests smell of bad fish, for the owners care nothing 

 about sanitation. Young cormorants are not nearly 

 so black as their parents, and do not attain adult 

 plumage till they are four years old. 



