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received an adult bird and a young bird of the year, 

 shot in the harbour at Alderney in August of that 

 year, and those are the only Channel Island speci- 

 mens of the Cormorant that I have seen. 



Professor Ansted includes the Cormorant in his 

 list, and marks it as occurring only in Guernsey 

 and Sark. There is no specimen at present in the 

 Museum. 



161. SHAG. Phalacrocorax graculus, Linnaeus. 

 French, " Cormoran largup." The Shag almost 

 entirely takes the place, as well as usurps the name, 

 of its big brother, as in the Islands it is invariably 

 called the Cormorant. The local Guernsey-French 

 name " Cormoran" is applicable probably to either 

 the Shag or the Cormorant. The Shag is the most 

 numerous of the sea birds which frequent the 

 Islands, the Herring Gull not even excepted, every 

 nook and corner of the high cliffs in all the Islands 

 being occupied by scores of Shags during the 

 breeding-season. They take care, however, to 

 place their nests in tolerably inaccessible places 

 that cannot well be reached without a rope. The 

 principal breeding-places are in Guernsey, about 

 the Gull Cliffs, and from there to Petit Bo, and a 

 few, but not so many, on the rocks between there 

 and Fermain, wherever they can find a place ; none 

 breed on the north or west side of the Island; 

 in Jethou and Herm, and on the rock called 



