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fishing, by the same dodge of rowing up hard while 
the bird was under water and remaining quiet as 
soon as he appeared on the surface; but as soon as 
the boat was up near enough for him to suspect 
danger he would be off on the wing, and not under 
water. Perhaps the easiest way of shooting a Cor- 
morant is to wait for him when he comes in to roost; 
but though I have occasionally tried this plan, when 
in want of a specimen, with a certain amount of 
success, on the cliffs at Berry Head, near Torquay, 
I do not much like it, as the birds do not come in to 
roost until it is getting dark, and consequently there 
is considerable difficulty in following up a wounded 
one if it falls into the water, and in any sort of 
shooting I hate losing a wounded bird. Without any 
shooting, however, it is a very interesting sight to 
watch the Cormorants coming in to roost: at Berry 
Head the roosting place is in an extremely beautiful 
situation, in a tolerably large cavern at the bottom of 
a little bay immediately under the highest part of 
the cliff: into this cavern the sea runs for some 
distance, and for the purpose of watching the Cor- 
morants one must land on the rocks in the cavern, 
and pick out a convenient hiding-place, while the 
boat is rowed off to some distance behind a small 
island just at the entrance of the bay. As it is 
getting dusk the Cormorants begin to come in 
from the sea, very sparingly at first,—one at a time, 
—and after a short flight of inspection round the 
