114 FISHING CORMORANTS. [Cuar. VIL, 
twenty-five days. When hatched, take the young 
and put them upon cotton, spread upon some warm 
water, and feed them with eel’s blood for five days. 
After five days they can be fed with eel’s flesh 
chopped fine, and great care must be taken in 
watching them. 
“When fishing, a straw tie must be put upon 
their necks, to prevent them from swallowing the 
fish when they catch them. In the eighth or ninth 
month of the year they will daily descend into the 
water at ten o’clock in the morning, and catch fish 
until five in the afternoon, when they will come on 
shore. They will continue to go on in this way 
until the third month, after which time they cannot 
fish until the eighth month comes round again. 
The male is easily known from the female, in being. 
generally a larger bird, and in having a darker and 
more glossy feather, but more particularly in the 
size of the head, the head of the male being large 
and that of the female small.” 
Such are the habits of this extraordinary bird. 
As the months‘named in the note just quoted refer 
to the Chinese calendar, it follows that these birds 
do not fish in the summer months, but commence 
in autumn, about October, and end about May— 
periods agreeing nearly with the eighth and third 
month of the Chinese year. 
