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Browne, at Beedham, upon trees. Other building-places 
mentioned are the Boss of Kircudbright, St. Bees’ Head, and 
the Isle of Man. 
It is common on the Norfolk coast near Yarmouth, in the 
neighbourhood of the broads, especially in the autumn. 
One was shot at Herringfleet, in breeding plumage, on the 
4th. of April, 1848; also in Dorsetshire. In Cornwall, about 
Falmouth, Gwyllyn Vase, Swanpool, Mainporth, Pennance, 
and other parts. In Oxfordshire, a fine bird of this species 
was shot by Frederic Dashwood, Esq. on the piece of 
water in Kirtlington Park. In Berkshire it has occurred 
on Frilham Pond, near Newbury, namely, in November, 
1803. In Worcestershire, one at Hewell Park, near Broms- 
grove, the seat of the Hon. Bobert Henry Clive, M.P., 
the early part of April, 1849. Dr. Heysham has recorded 
that about the year 1759, one of these birds perched upon 
the castle at Carlisle, and soon afterwards removed to the 
Cathedral. In another instance a flock of fifteen or twenty 
alighted in a tree on the banks of the Biver Esk, in the 
same county of Cumberland, near Netherby Hall, the seat 
of the ‘Graham of Netherby Clan.’ 
The Cormorant has been met with near Godaiming, Surrey. 
In Lincolnshire, on Croxby Lake and other places. An 
immature specimen was shot on the Thames at Swanscombe, 
in Kent, in April, 1848. They often frequent the water 
around Walton Hall, Yorkshire, in the winter. 
In Orkney it is a native bird; so also common in Ireland. 
One was shot on the wing with a rifle by the Hon. Mr. 
Plunkett, son of Lord Plunkett, and having hit it in the 
neck, the bullet cut in two a large eel, which the bird had 
in its throat at the time. This singular circumstance is 
related in ‘‘The Naturalist,’ volume i., page 68, by Samuel 
Hannaford, Esq., Jun. 
Mr. John Dutton, B.N., has favoured me with some 
particulars of these birds. He says they always dip their 
wings in the water on first taking flight from their resting- 
places. 
They often collect in parties of thirty or forty, and occa¬ 
sionally in very large bodies, more than a thousand having 
been seen together at one time. 
On the land they are dull and heavy. They are only to 
be seen to advantage on the water. They roost indiscrimi¬ 
nately on rocks or high trees, houses and other buildings, posts, 
