HISTOBY OF BEITISH BIEDS. 



CORMORANT. 



COMMON COEMOEAIS'T. CEESTED COEMOEANT. CORYOEANT. 

 GEEAT COEVOEANT. CEESTED COEVOEANT. 



Pefecanus carbo, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Phalacrocorax carbo, FLEMING. SKLBY. JENYNS. GOULD. 



Carbo cormoranus, TfiMMINCK. 



Pefecanus A Pelican. Carbo . 



THE Cormorant is a bird of almost universal distribution, 

 and belongs to each of the four quarters of the globe. It is 

 also accommodating in the situations it frequents, and makes 

 itself equally at home on sea or land, both near the shore 

 and farther from it, in barren and rocky places, as well as 

 in those that are wooded, the neighbourhood of buildings, and 

 the most lonely wilderness, rivers and lakes, fresh-water and 

 salt. 



In Europe it occurs on the shores of Norway and Iceland, 

 and then in the south is seen in the Black Sea and the 

 Grecian Archipelago, as also on the Swiss and other lakes 

 and rivers. In Asia, in Siberia, Russia, and the Icy Sea, the 

 Caspian Sea, and India; in America, from Greenland and 

 Hudson's Bay to Canada arid the United States. 



The Cormorant used formerly to breed near the lighthouse 

 at Flamborough Head, in Yorkshire, as it does still, or did 

 not long since, in the neighbouring rocks of Raincliffe, before 

 Buckton Hall. In Suffolk they have been known to build 

 near Fritton Decoy, taking possession of part of a rookery, 

 and they used to do so formerly, according to Sir Thomas 



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