324 Mr. Jenyns on the Ornithology of Cambridgeshire. 
Sp. 157. 
Sp. 158. 
Genus LV. CARBO, Meyer. 
C. Cormoranus, Temm. Man. d@Ornith. p.894. 
Cormorant. —On the seventeenth of August in the present year 
(1825). one of these birds alighted on the top of King’s College 
chapel, and was there shot. It is now in the collection of 
Dr. Thackeray. I have been informed that it is not unusual for 
this species to follow the course of rivers to a great distance from 
the sea. 
Genus LVI. SULA, Briss. 
S. alba, Temm. Man. @Ornith. p. 905. 
GanNET.—This is a much more extraordinary instance of a bird’s 
being noticed so far from its usual haunts. ‘Two specimens were 
killed. in Cambridgeshire during the autumn of 1824. The first 
of these was shot near Fulbourn on the eleventh of October, and 
is now in the Museum of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 
About a week afterwards, the second was killed near Southery fen 
in the Isle of Ely. Montagu observes that in the autumn these 
birds leave our northern islands where they breed, journeying 
southward, and may be seen during their winter migration in every 
part of the British channel, but that generally they keep far out 
at sea. I cannot indeed find mention in any author of their being 
found inland. The above therefore appears to be a solitary instance, 
and must have been occasioned by some very peculiar accident. 
It will be readily seen in the foregoing catalogue, that one 
or two 
species supposed to be of general occurrence are not 
inserted, as well as others, which it is not improbable may occa- 
sionally visit this county; but as these have never fallen under 
my own observation, and I have been unable to learn any thing 
respecting them, they are necessarily omitted. I trust, however, 
that what was stated in the Introduction to this Paper, will 
sufficiently apologize for its imperfection, and shall conclude by 
requesting from the Members of this Society, any further infor- 
mation on the subject they may chance to possess. 
