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appeared near Kamenic, not far from Jicin. According to Mr. Lokaj a strange occurrence 

 happened two years ago near Rusin, not far from Prague. During the night a fire broke out in 

 this village, when two Cormorants, which probably had been roosting in the Sternthiergarten 

 close by, appeared, flying in circles over the fire, one of them falling at last into it ; and the 

 other dropping close by, was caught alive." 



In Transylvania, Messrs. Danford and Harvie-Brown write (Ibis, 1875, p. 431), it is "rare, 

 but is sometimes found on the larger rivers in winter. Herr Buda Adam killed one near Buss, 

 on the Strell, in August ; and a young bird was shot near Hatzeg. The specimen in the 

 Klausenburg Museum is from Felvincz. On the 24th June, 1867, Herr Otto shot an adult female 

 at Felvincz ; and again, on the 24th July of the same year, seven were seen near Klausenburg, 

 and two of them were shot." 



It is found on the Danube, and breeds numerously, Messrs. Elwes and Buckley state, on 

 the Bosphorus and Sea of Marmora, as also, according to Dr. Kriiper, in Greece and the Cyclades. 

 Captain Sperling states that in December when Duck-shooting at Petala, on the coast of Greece, 

 a large flock of not less than two thousand Cormorants passed over his head ; and Lord Lilford 

 informs me that he found it by no means uncommon on the coasts of Epirus in winter. 



It is found on the coast of Asia Minor ; and, Canon Tristram says, is very numerous on those 

 of Palestine, and visits the mouth of the Jordan regularly, where he met with it sitting on a 

 " snag," and watching for the stupefied fishes. In Egypt, according to Captain Shelley, it is 

 very plentiful ; and he believes that it breeds in the Fayoom ; but Von Heuglin remarks that it 

 disappears from the Nile in March and April. He says that it visits the lagoons of Lower Egypt 

 in large flocks, and in Central and Upper Egypt it is extremely numerous, especially amongst the 

 rocks of Minieh, Farschut, and Abulfeda ; but he did not observe it south of Assouan, though 

 Brehm states that it straggles to the Sudan. In December and January he saw flocks of 

 Cormorants at Ain Musah, in Arabia Petrasa. According to Loche it is resident in the large 

 lakes of Algeria. Mr. Salvin observed several in the lagoon of El Baheira ; and Favier {fide 

 Colonel Irby, Orn. Str. Gibr. p. 207) states that it is found near Tangier from December to 

 February, and frequents the coast, lakes, and rivers, where it is not uncommon. It ranges 

 at least as far south as Damara Land, where, according to Mr. Andersson, it is not rare in 

 Walwich Bay ; and Mr. Layard believes that he has seen it in Simon's Bay in breeding-dress ; 

 but the species included by him (B. of S. Afr. p. 380) under the name of Graculus carbo proves 

 on further examination to be Graculus lucidus, Licht., a distinct species from our European 

 Cormorant. Mr. Barratt, however, remarks (Ibis, 1876, p. 214) that he shot an example of 

 Phalacrocorax carbo in the Orange Free State. 



In Asia the present species ranges eastward to Japan, and south to Australia and New 

 Zealand. 



Major St. John states that the common Cormorant abounds on the lakes and rivers of 

 Southern Persia ; and, according to Mr. Blanford (E. Pers. ii. p. 298), it is " excessively abundant 

 on the Makran coast. Every evening long processions of Cormorants, flying at a considerable 

 elevation, used to pass from one to the other of the bays on each side of the isthmus on which 

 the village is built. I heard that all disappeared, with most of the Gulls, Pelicans, &c, about 

 March. Cormorants are very abundant, too, on the Caspian." Mr. Hume (Stray Feathers, i. 



