CORMORANT 141 
PHALACROCORAX CARBO (ULinn.). 
CORMORANT. 
Diver, JinnieE Diver. Manx: The name *Shag, given in both 
dictionaries, is applied to this and the next species, which are 
seldom distinguished ; and both give also Fannag-varrey = 
Sea-Crow. Feeagh-marrey =Sea-Raven, appears in Lev. xi. 17. 
*Arraguooar or *Arrag-ooar seems to mean P. carbo, per- 
haps only the young white-breasted birds. (Cf. Irish, 
Siagaidh, Siogaidh, Fiach mara; Sc. Gaelic, Orag. Irish, 
Odharog=‘a young Cormorant.’) 
All round our coast the Cormorant is a common bird at 
most seasons, far better distributed than the next species, 
which also seldom or never comes inland like P. carbo, 
Cormorants are conspicuous in all our larger bays, and they 
frequent certain favourite spots as resting places, sometimes 
in considerable numbers, as for instance at Douglas, the reef 
of Conister, and when the tide covers the latter, the battle- 
mented buildings erected on it, where as many as twenty 
occasionally gather. The two perches nearer the Victoria 
Pier are also seats often occupied, and such are also a 
number of isolated rocks surrounded by water or difficult of 
access, like the Stack of Scarlett, which perhaps obtained 
its name, afterwards extended to the neighbouring estate 
and ‘treen, from this bird;* the Shag Rock at Perwick, 
where, however, P. graculus is probably the predominant 
species; the Shag Rock near Laxey, and the striking 
and massive Shag Rock under Peel Hill (where also the 
Shag is very much more abundant). There are also roosts 
on elevated shelves and ledges amid the cliffs, which are 
regularly resorted to. Mr. Kermode in Sczence Gossip (May 
1 Norse, Skarfr=Cormorant; Klettr=Rock. (See Moore, Surnames, etc., 
p. 284.) Creg Harlet, a similar mass of rock off Bradda, has likely the same 
meaning, whatever that may be. 
