FLAMBOROUGH HEAD. 



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It is needless to go through all the sea-fowl. Perhaps, however, the 

 Cormorant might have a word — 



"As with his wings aslant^ 

 Sails the fierce cormorant. 

 Seeking some rocky haunt. 

 With his prey laden." 



Longfellow : Skeleton in Armour. 



A curious anecdote is mentioned in the ' Transactions of the Tyneside 

 Naturalists' Field-Club,' 1864, vol. vi. part ii. p. 160. Under the head of 

 Johnston's Hump-backed Whale QMegaptPra longimana, Rudolphi), we read 

 that a female was thrown up on Holy Isle fifty-eight feet in length. " On 

 opening the stomach six Cormorants were found in it, and another in the 

 throat ; so that it w^as presumed that the whale was choked in the attempt 

 to swallow the bird." 



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