PELICANIDE. 559 
Guillemots add much to the general beauty by their 
voices, as they groan and grunt at each other in a 
horrible way, like twice their number of pigs. 
Family PELICANIDE. 
Of the four Pelicanide now included amongst the 
British birds, I have only two Somersetshire species 
to mention, both of them only occasional visitors to 
our muddy sea. 
Common Cormorant, Phalacrocorax Carbo. I 
only know of one Somersetshire specimen of the 
Cormorant, and that is the one mentioned by Mon- 
tagu as having been taken alive in the river near 
Bridgwater, and sent to him by his friend Mr. An- 
stice: this bird lived some time in confinement— 
quite long enough to show its various changes of 
plumage, and to prove that the Cormorant and the 
* Crested Cormorant” of Bewick are the same bird, 
the only difference being that the latter is the present 
species in its summer plumage. 
This bird appears to become very tame in confine- 
ment, as both Montagu’s bird and one kept by Dr. 
Saxby* became almost troublesomely tame, roaming 
about the house wherever there was an open door, 
and occasionally making an expedition to inspect the 
* See ‘ Zoologist’ for 1865, p. 9408. 
