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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
water (like a steam-engine gone mad at the bottom of 
the river) between the ' Detective ' and ' Hoang Ho' (the 
cormorants) and the fish. I could stand it no longer, so 
I jumped into the water, and went to the assistance of the 
birds. The birds and myself had two or three good 
courses, and at last the poor hunted fish took refuge under 
some boards, which formed the apron below the hatches. 
' Hoang Ho ' kept pecking at him with his beak, but could 
not reach him. I then went in still deeper into the water, 
and caught the fish in my hands, a greyling weighing 
nearly 3 lbs The only person not pleased was the 
miller, who said ' he never see'd three such poachers in his 
life in the water together, as them long-necked birds with 
straps round their necks, and the gent as ought to have a 
strap round his'n.' " 
The illustration of this species in Yarrell's " British 
Birds " represents two birds which were killed in the Isle 
of Wight. 
134. Phalacrocorax gmculus. Shag. 
Green Cormorant. 
A resident on the coast, but not common. 
It nests very sparingly on the Freshwater Cliffs, in the 
Isle of Wight, and, as Mr. Woods, of Sandown, informs us, 
probably nests also on the Culvers, the birds being always 
there. 
In Bury's time it bred on the Needles, but was not 
nearly as common as the common cormorant.^ 
More in 18602 considered it "one of the rarest resi- 
^ " Zoologist." 1845. " Birds of the Isle of Wight." 
