HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
CORMORANT. 
COMMON CORMORANT. CRESTED CORMORANT. CORYORANT. 
GREAT CORYORANT. CRESTED CORYORANT. 
Pe/ecanus carlo , Pennant. Montagu. Bewick. 
Phalacrocorax carbo, Fleming. Selby. Jenyns. Gould. 
Carbu cormorunus, Temminck. 
Pelecanus —A Pelican. Carbo —.? 
The Cormorant is a bird of almost universal distribution, 
and belongs to each of the four quarters of the globe. It is 
also accommodating in the situations it frequents, and makes 
itself equally at home on sea or land, both near the shore 
and farther from it, in barren and rocky places, as well as 
in those that are wooded, the neighbourhood of buildings, and 
the most lonely wilderness, rivers and lakes, fresh-water and 
salt. 
In Europe it occurs on the shores of Norway and Iceland, 
and then in the south is seen in the Black Sea and the 
Grecian Archipelago, as also on the Swiss and other lakes 
and rivers. In Asia, in Siberia, Russia, and the Icy Sea, the 
Caspian Sea, and India; in America, from Greenland and 
Hudson’s Bay to Canada and the United States. 
The Cormorant used formerly to breed near the lighthouse 
at Flamborough Head, in Yorkshire, as it does still, or did 
not long since, in the neighbouring rocks of Raincliffe, before 
Buckton Hall. In Suffolk they have been known to build 
near Fritton Decoy, taking possession of part of a rookery, 
and they used to do so formerly, according to Sir Thomas 
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