THE CORMORANT 
Phalacrocorax carbo 
Arabic, Agag 
Plumage dark bluish-black over head, breast, body ; dull 
greenish-brown on wings, each feather margined with a 
darker tone ; a pure white patch on cheeks, and another on 
the flanks; feathers on top of head elongated and edged 
with white; beak black at tip, yellow at base; part of the 
pouch which is without feathers, blue; legs black; eyes 
green. Length, 36 inches. 
Tuis is not a bird one would expect to see far 
away from the salt water, but there is anyhow one 
colony of them up the Nile at Gebel Abii Féada— 
and any one going up the Nile must pass right 
by their breeding-place—and the birds in general 
seem to work rather south of that point than to 
the north. In March 1908 I saw them twice; 
once, near Manfalit, a string of six flew low over 
the water in single file so near that one could 
with the glass see the very hook at the end of their 
long bills. Perhaps no point on the river is quite 
so magnificent as these cliffs of Abi Féada—the 
water rushes by their very feet, and their tops 
tower high in beautifully broken forms. The 
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