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tioned by Swammerdam *, who feems to imply that the birds 

 were not taught in England, but imported from other parts ; and 

 gives the method of fifhing with them much to the fame purport 

 as related by us above. 



The Corvorant is fufficiently common in this kingdom, but more 

 efpecially the northern part of it ; it is likewife very frequent on 

 the continent, on all the northern mores, quite to Kamtfchatka f ; in 

 Greenland it remains the whole year, and builds on the tops of the 

 crags, laying three or more pale green eggs, the fize of thofe of a 

 Gooje; but thefe prove fo very foetid and difgufting, that the 

 Greenlanders will fcarce ever eat them. Often feen in flocks on the - 

 inaccefiible parts of the rocks, and is in general a very wary bird, 

 yet at times is unaccountably torpid or heedlefs ; for after a full 

 furfeit oifijh, or when afleep, will fuffer a net to be thrown over it, 

 or a noofe put round its neck, fo as to be eafily taken. About 

 twenty-five years fince one of thefe perched upon the caftle at 

 Carlijle, and foon afterwards removed to the cathedral, where it 

 was fhot at upwards of twenty times without efFefl ; at length a 

 perfon got upon the cathedral, fired at, and killed it. In another 

 inftance, a flock of fifteen or twenty perched, at the dufk of the 

 evening, in a tree on the banks of the River Efk, near Netherhy, 



" which would come to hand. He took much pleafure in them ; and relates, 

 " that the bed he had was one prefented him by Mr. Wood, Majttr of the Cor- 

 " <vorants to Charles I. ' — Br. Zool. ii. p. 610. 



* Biblia Natura (at the end of his Introduction to the Hifc. of Bees). See Engl. 

 Tranjl. Parti, p. 193. 



f On the borders of the river Don, and the lakes of RuJJia adjoining, are com- 

 mon, and build in trees, five or fix nefts together on one tree ; thefe are large, 

 compofed of flicks and roots. Dec. Ruff. i. p. 164. — They fometimes make the 

 nefts in trees in this kingdom, along with Herons. 



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