PELECANIDA. 361 
THE COMMON CORMORANT. 
PHALACROCORAX CARBO (Linnzus). 
The Great, or Black Cormorant, as it is sometimes called to 
distinguish it from the smaller Green Cormorant or Shag, is 
common and generally distributed along the greater part of the 
British coast-line, and until 1825-27 some 50 or 60 pairs used to 
nest on the trees at Fritton, Suffolk. From Flamborough northward 
to Caithness it is more abundant, as a rule, than the Shag ; though in 
the Shetlands, Orkneys, Hebrides, and along the western side of 
Scotland, it is usually in a minority ; while in Wales it is again in the 
ascendant as far as Pembrokeshire, where, as in the south-west of 
England, the Shag predominates. It is widely distributed in Ireland. 
Apart from the sea-coast, the Cormorant not infrequently nests 
inland: notably on the bold rock near Towyn known as Craig-y- 
deryn, and on several lakes in Ireland, sometimes breeding in com- 
pany with Herons on trees. 
