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This is perhaps the most abundant of our cliff-birds ; but, like the 

 Puffin and Guillemot, it does not nest upon the flat shores of the east 

 coast from Kent to Yorkshire ; and I have no authority for Subprovinces 

 26 and 29, though there can be little doubt that it breeds in both of 

 these districts. 



GRACULUS CARKO (G. R. Gray}. Common Cormorant. 



Provinces I. II. [IV.] VI. VII. X.-XVIII. 

 Subprovinces 1-6, (11), 17, 18, 22, 24-28, 30-38. 

 Lat. 50-61. " British" type, or general. 



Like most other sea-fowl, the Cormorant is more numerous on our 

 northern and western coasts. 



Sir Thomas Browne tells us that they formerly built upon trees at 

 Reedham in Norfolk, " whence King Charles the First was wont to be 

 supplied." 



Doubtless the Cormorant, as well as the Shag, breeds on the Isle of 

 May, and perhaps on other parts of the coast of Fifeshire ; but I have 

 no list for this county. 



GRACULUS LINN^EI (G..R. Gray}. Shag. 



Provinces I.-II. VI. VII. X.-XVIII. 

 Subprovinces 1-5, 17, 18, 22, 24-29, 32-38. 

 Lat. 50-61. " British " type, or general. 



The Shag is far less numerous than the Cormorant in the south, but 

 is described as abundant in many parts of Scotland, especially the 

 western and northern islands. On the east side of Scotland, however, 

 there are large tracts of coast on which none are to be seen. The bird 

 is also wanting on the south and east coasts of England, from tbe Isle 

 of Wight to Yorkshire. 



SULA BASSANA (Boie]. Gannet. 



Provinces I. XIII. XIV. XVIII. 



Subprovinces 2, 27, 28, 36, 37. 



Lat. 51-59. " Scottish " type, or Northern. 



The breeding- stations of the Gannet are Lundy Island, in the British 

 Channel ; Ailsa Craig, off Ayrshire ; St. Kilda (and, I believe, one or 

 two neighbouring islands), in the Outer Hebrides; Suliskerry, which 

 lies to the west of Hoy in Orkney ; and the Bass Rock, in the Firth of 

 Forth. 



STERNA CANTIACA (Gmel.}. Sandwich Tern. 



Provinces I. III. XI. XII. XIV.-XVI. 

 Subprovinces 1, 7, 8, 24, 25, 28, 29, 32. 

 Lat. 50 D -57. " English " type, or Southern. 



Breeds in Cornwall (Mr. E. H. Rodd} ; in South Kent occasionally 



