PEO LOT Me.) Aone 
Pelicaus of the Cape of Good Hope; and we have heard it remarked, 
that this down is at leaft equal, if mot fuperior to that of the Swan. 
Pelecanus Carbo, Jed. Orn. ii. p. 886. 14. 
Phalacrocorax, Ger. Orz. v. t. 501. 
Corverant, Gez. Syn. Vi. D. 593. 13- 
OTH the Corvorant and Shag are frequent at Lougharu, and eels are 
fuppofed to be their chief food; but the Sea Geby has alfo been 
taken from their ftomach, hence it may be ~fuppofed, that they 
prey at times on Fi/h alfo*. It is no uncommon thing to fee twenty 
of thefe birds together on the fand, by the river fide, with extended 
wings, drying themfelves in the wind, and in this pofition to remain 
fometimes for near an hour, without once clofing them; and as foon 
as they are fufficiently dry, to enable the feathers to imbibe the oil, 
they prefs a portion thereof from the receptacle on their rumps, and 
drefs the feathers with it; and it is only in one particular ftate that 
the oily matter can be fpread thereon, by no means when quite dry, 
but in a ftate of dampnefs, and Bus proper moment known to the 
birds by inftiné alone. 
It has been obferved, that the Corverant builds at Ramf. 2y Tland, in 
the higheft cliffs and moft inacceffible places; the Shag much lower, 
and is by much the more familiar bird of the two. Inftances have 
been noticed, of the Corvorant not being eafily frightened from any 
place on which it perches ; in addition to which, I have been credibly 
informed, that the end of Fuly 1793, one of them was found fitting on 
the vane of St. Magdalen’s Church fteeple, on Ludgate Hill, in London, 
and was fhot from thence in the prefence of a number of people +. 
= Colonel Montagu. 
+ A further defcription of the manners bfthe Corworane may be feer, well drawn 
up, in Gilpin’s Remarks on Foreft Scenery, z vols. 8vo, 1791. 
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CORVORANT. 
Description. 
