COEMORANT. 



PHALACROCORAX CARBO {Linn.). 



Pelecanus carbo, Litm. S. N. i. p. 216 (1766). 

 Halieus cormoramxs, Naum. xi. p. 53. 



Phalacrocorax carboj Macg. v. p. 380; Hewitson, ii. p. 471 ; 

 Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 143; Dresser, vi. p. 151. 



Grand Curmoran, French ; Kormoran, G-ermau ; Cuervo 

 marino, Pato cuervo, Spanish. 



The Cormorant is common locally on the coast of the 

 United Kjngdom and its adjacent islands, but in certain 

 districts is less abundant than the other British 

 representative of the genus, — the Shag, or Green 

 Cormorant. The present species is, however, much 

 less exclusively maritime in habits than the Shag, and 

 occasionally nests at a considerable distance from salt 

 water. As a rule, however, in so far as our Islands are 

 concerned, the present species generally selects the 

 ledges of lofty sea cliffs as breeding-sites, and very large 

 settlements exist in many localities of this kind all 

 around our Islands. In certain inland places in Ireland 

 this bird nests on trees or bushes, and did so within 

 the memory of man at Fritton in Suffolk. In my own 



