STEGANOPODES. ( 33 ) PELECANIDyE. 



THE SHAG OR GREEN CORMORANT. 



CKESTED C011M0RA.NT, SCART, SCARF, TUFTED SKART. 



Phalacrocorax graculus. 



Others there are that make their home 

 Where the white billows 7-oar and foam 



Around the o' erhangirtg 7-ock ; 

 Fearless they skim the angry wave, 

 Or, sheltered in their sea-beat cave, 



The tempest' s fury mock. 



Hemans, Birds. 



The Green Cormorant is found on the coast of Berwickshire 

 at all seasons of the year, and breeds at the Brander Cove, 

 a lofty shelving ridge of rocks which runs out into the sea 

 about a mile to the east of Fast Castle, Here my friend 

 Mr. W. Evans saw a colony of ten Green Cormorants, and 

 put one off a nest which contained three eggs on the 15 th 

 of May 1887. I visited the spot in a boat on the 30th of 

 June following, when, in addition to an old bird sitting on 

 a nest in a crevice of the rock about thirty feet above the 

 water, I noticed another with two young on an adjoining 

 ledge. They were not shy, but sat quietly and allowed me 

 to examine them with my binocular from the boat, which 

 was close to the bottom of the rock. The Brander Cove 

 has been long known as a favourite nesting place of this 

 species, Mr. Hardy having noted it as such in 1855, along 

 with Caldron Cove, Harelaw Cove, and Byreloch Heugh. 

 He adds that about the same time Mr. Wilson of Colding- 

 ham informed him that he had seen the nest of the Shag 

 on the shelves at the sides of Caldron Cove as well as 

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