240 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 
B Bis the only shot for Pelicans. A loose charge is no 
good. A No. 4 shot will drill a clean hole through the big 
wing bone without breaking it. 
I observe that the example in the Zoological Gardens at 
London has a greater power of moving the eye than most 
birds. On stating to the keeper that I had seen these birds 
sitting in tamarisk trees, he said that one perched on one 
occasion on the iron rail which divides their-cage down the 
middle. 
215. CORMORANT, Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.); 
“ Agag.” 
We saw a few at Damietta and some more in Middle 
Egypt as we were going up, but in the Faioum none. 
Captain Shelley, Mr. E. C. Taylor, and Dr. Adams, are 
of opinion that they stay to breed. I, however, do not 
believe they breed either at the cliffs of Gebel-Abou-Fayda, 
or of Gebel-Tair. 
%216. LONG-TAILED CORMORANT, Graculus africanus 
(Gm.); Sav. Desc. de Eg, ois. 8, fig. 2; 
Carbo longicauda, Swains; Westafr, IL, p. 255, pl. 31; 
Finsch and Hartlaub, p. 847. 
This is one of the commonest of birds at lake Faioum in 
June. Some we shot were in immature, or perhaps still in 
winter plumage, with all the underparts, except the vent, 
white; others were curiously mottled black and white; 
and others were in full breeding plumage. Some of the 
latter had the flesh of the forehead raised in a very singular 
manner, but on looking at my skins I see that it has much 
sunk down. These birds had also crests. But the strangest 
thing about them is a sharp bone, about half an inch long, 
