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rally, to be about five to a hundred of the other (P. carlo)* 

 At the island of Lambay (Dublin coast) they annually breed ;t 

 about fifty birds were observed tliere one day in June 1850. J 



I have seen specimens which were killed in Dublin Bay, and 

 was informed, in 1837, that about the montli of November or 

 December, every year, six or seven of these birds appear near 

 the Pigeon-house battery there. § They are rarely met with far 

 up Belfast Bay, like the common cormorant ; in the tidal portion 

 of the river Lagan, at Ormeau, one was shot in April 1827. 



On the sands of the river Bann, about a quarter of a mile from 

 where it joins the ocean, I remarked the following incongruous 

 flock of birds on the 9th of July, 1833 ; — seven green cormo- 

 rants, two herons, several curlews, five black-headed, several of 

 the greater black-backed, and a very large flock of herring-gulls ; 

 these last being in one, two, three, and four years old plumage. 



In the stomach of a green cormorant, shot in January 1838, con- 

 taining as food the remains of fishes only, I found three pebbles, 

 • — one, an inch and a quarter, another an inch, and the third 

 three-quarters of an inch in breadth, but none more than half as 

 much in thickness. 



Sir William Jardine gives a very interesting description of tliis 

 species in its breeding-stations, several of which he visited. || 



Carho pygmatis, Temm. — A cormorant of a blackish-green 

 colour, smaller than C. cnstatus, and I have no doubt C. pi/g- 

 mcBiis, flew close past H.M.S. Beacon, when in the harbour of 

 Syra, on May 7th, 1841 ; a fact Avortli noticing, as neither Tem- 

 minck nor Degland^f is aware of its inhabiting that quarter. On 

 the 10th of June I saw, at a rocky islet to the north-east of Port 

 Naussa, in the island of Paros'^'^ another small cormorant in a 

 different state of plumage — (back greyish-green, belly white) — 

 which I considered to be of this species. 



* Mr. Poole. f Mr. R. J. Moutgomery. % INFr. Watters. 



§ Mr. H. H. Dombrain. || ' Brit. Birds,' vol. iv. p. 240. 



^ ' Ornitliologie Europccnnc' 1849. 



** Pelican (P. onocrolalus). Mr. Wilkinsou, jun., of Syra, described to me as a 



