108 ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. By G. BOLAM 



may generally be found ; they may also be seen flying over 

 the town at almost any hour of the day during winter. Of 

 late, too, they have become not unfamiliar objects in the 

 windows of the game shops in the town, a position of 

 honour I never knew one to occupy till three years ago. 



Green Cormorant. Phalacrocorax graculus (Linn.) 



This bird seems also to be on the increase to the south 

 of the Tweed. They have always bred on the Berwickshire 

 coast, about St. Abb's Head, and a pair have frequently 

 nested on the Farne Islands ; but until recent years the 

 Shag has always been a comparatively rare bird upon the 

 Northumberland coast, or nearer to Berwick than about 

 Eyemouth, and it is not yet by any means commonly met 

 with. 



On 17th March 1897, I saw a party of six of these birds 

 on the rocks just north of Berwick, which are the only ones 

 I ever remember to have met with within the borough itself. 

 On 6th September of that year, there were a good many 

 both old and young birds about the Farne Islands, where, 

 on 12th May last, Mr Paynter counted no fewer than 

 fifteen or sixteen pairs, though not more than one or two 

 of these remained to breed there. 



Black Tern. Hydrochelidoii nigra (Linn.) 



On 24th October 1897 I purchased an immature specimen 

 of this bird which had been shot, only a few hours pre- 

 viously, on the Tweed near Berwick. 



