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Family PELECANID^E. 



COMMON CORMORANT, Phalacrocorax carlo. 

 Provincial, Seaford Shag. A small colony is es- 

 tablished at Seaford Cliff during the breeding-sea- 

 son. Stragglers from the Isle of Wight continually 

 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 

 1838-89. 



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. During the night they sleep 

 on the water, so profoundly as frequently to allow 

 the boats to pass over them. 



Family LARID.E. 



SANDWICH TERN, Sterna Boysii. Has been 

 obtained at Pevensey, Selsey, and Rye in May 



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