130 GREEN CORMORANT. 



the month of March, April, or May: they are hatched 

 in four weeks. 



As soon as the young are able to fend and forage 

 for themselves, which is as soon as they can fly, they 

 are conducted to the sea by their parents, and then 

 left to their own resources. 



GREEN CORMORANT. 



CRESTED CORMORANT. SHAG. CRESTED SHAG. 

 GREEN-CRESTED CORMORANT. CORVORANT. 



PLATE CCXII. FIGURE I. 



Pelecanus cristatus, PENNANT. 



Pelecanus graculus, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Phalacrocorax cristatus, SELBY. JENYNS. GOULD. 



Carlo cristatus, TEMMINCK. 



ri 1HESE Cormorants make their nests on the ledges 

 -*- and shelves of cliffs or caves over the sea, lower 

 down than the other species. Many pairs, a score or 

 more, frequent the same place. They return to it 

 annually for the breeding-season. Montagu mentions 

 his having counted thirty together on a small rock. 

 The bird sits upright on the eggs. 



The nest is a mass of sea-weed, softened off in- 

 ternally with the finer sorts of grass. 



