CORMORANT. 



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eggs are deposited. On the Scottish and northern 

 coasts the Common Tern is not often found, but 

 the Arctic Tern (Sterna macrourd) comes to 

 supply its place. There are ten or eleven species 

 of British Terns. 



On many of the English coasts, especially those 

 that look towards the Channel, may be seen a 

 tolerably large black-feathered bird, having a 

 yellowish countenance, a decidedly long and 

 rather hooked bill, and a pair of green eyes. 



This is the Cormorant {Graculus carbo), one of 

 our three British representatives of the Pelican 



