246 SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE. 



During winter great numbers are killed a few 

 miles at sea, off Hastings. 



Family PELECANID.E. 



COMMON CORMORANT, Phalacrocorax carlo. 

 Provincial, Seaford Shag. A small colony is 

 established at Seaford Cliff during the breeding- 

 season. Stragglers from the Isle of Wight con- 

 tinually pass along the coast, and a bird of this 

 species now and then makes his appearance on 

 large ponds and flooded tracts of low land in the 

 interior. 



GREEN CORMORANT, Phalacrocorax graculus. 

 Of very unusual occurrence. I have seen one 

 or two examples immature which were killed 

 at Pagham Harbour during the hard winter of 

 1838-39. 



GANNET, Sula alba. After the severe storms 

 which attend the autumnal equinox, some of these 

 birds are almost always captured on the coast of 

 Sussex in an exhausted state. Individuals have 

 been thus found near Pagham, Selsey, Shoreham, 

 Newhaven, and Pevensey. The Brighton fisher- 

 men find them abundant in mid-channel during 

 the herring-season. At night they sleep on the 

 water, so profoundly as frequently to allow the 

 boats to pass over them. 



