CORMORANTS. 75 



Fam. PELECANID^. 



COEMOEANT. Ghraculus carlo (Linnaeus). 



Resident and generally distributed, but most nume- 

 rous on the northern and western coasts. 



SHA&. Graculus cristatus (Faber). 



Resident, but not so numerous as the last named, 

 except perhaps on the northern and western isles of 

 Scotland. 



GANNET. 8ula bassana (Linnaeus). 



Resident. The breeding-stations are : — Lundy Is- 

 land in the British Channel ; Ailsa Craig, off Ayr- 

 shire ; St. Kilda, in the Outer Hebrides ; Suliskerry, 

 to the west of Hoy, in Orkney ; and the Bass Rock, 

 in the Firth of Forth. 



Fam. LARIDiE. 



COMMON TEEN. Sterna fluviatilis, Naumann. 



A summer visitant, and generally distributed. This 

 bird has generally been regarded as the Sterna Mrundo 

 of Linnaeus ; but the species described by him under 

 that name is evidently the Arctic Tern, as may be 

 inferred from his description of the bill : — " rostrum 

 subulatum, versus apicem compressum, rectum, coc- 

 cineum, uti et pedes." 



