GANNET. 143 
ORDER STEGANOPODES. 
FAMILY PELECANIDA. 
COMMON CORMORANT. 
PHALACROCORAX CARBO (Linnzeus). 
The Cheshire coast offers no suitable nesting-place 
for the Cormorant, but the bird breeds in some numbers 
on the rocky headlands of the Great and Little Ormes 
in Carnarvonshire, and is, as might be expected, ‘not 
uncommon at times in the estuary of the Dee and on 
‘the Dee Marshes.’! It is also to be met with fishing on 
the sandbanks in Liverpool Bay. 
Stragglers and storm-driven birds are occasionally 
reported from the meres. Dr. Dobie records that one 
visited the pool at Ashton Hayes in 1893, and that 
Mr. A. Cookson has two immature birds which were 
shot at Oakmere in the late seventies.2 Another is 
recorded from Marbury Mere, near Northwich;* and 
we have seen an adult which was shot on Rostherne 
Mere on November 14th, 1896. 
GANNET. 
SULA BASSANA (Linneus). 
At certain seasons the Gannet visits Liverpool Bay 
in some numbers, but it is not often seen close inshore, 
1 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 16. 2 Dobie, op. cit. p. 317. 
3 J. E. Smith, Manchester City News, May 16, 1874. 
