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fishing, by the same dodge of rowing up hard while 

 the bird was under water and remaining quiet as 

 soon as he appeared on the surface ; but as soon as 

 the boat was up near enough for him to suspect 

 danger he would be off on the wing, and not under 

 water. Perhaps the easiest way of shooting a Cor- 

 morant is to wait for him when he comes in to roost ; 

 but though I have occasionally tried this plan, when 

 in want of a specimen, with a certain amount of 

 success, on the cliffs at Berry Head, near Torquay, 

 I do not much like it, as the birds do not come in to 

 roost until it is getting dark, and consequently there 

 is considerable difficulty in following up a wounded 

 one if it falls into the water, and in any sort of 

 shooting I hate losing a wounded bird. Without any 

 shooting, however, it is a very interesting sight to 

 watch the Cormorants coming in to roost : at Berry 

 Head the roosting place is in an extremely beautiful 

 situation, in a tolerably large cavern at the bottom of 

 a little bay immediately under the highest part of 

 the cliff: into this cavern the sea runs for some 

 distance, and for the purpose of watching the Cor- 

 morants one must land on the rocks in the cavern, 

 and pick out a convenient hiding-place, while the 

 boat is rowed off to some distance behind a small 

 island just at the entrance of the bay. As it is 

 getting dusk the Cormorants begin to come in 

 from the sea, very sparingly at first, one at a time, 

 and after a short flight of inspection round the 



