142 CORMORANT 
1876) describes their capture in such situations at Maug- 
hold, and on the sandy shores of the north some low 
boulder isolated amid the tide will be utilised until the 
rising water forces the bird to swim. The Cormorant 
resorts also to fresh water, as the ponds of the north and 
the pools of the Sulby and other of the deeper Manx 
streams, and its notoriety in this respect has led to the 
placing upon its head of a reward of half a crown by the 
Manx Fishery Board, when detected on inland water. ‘I 
watched one of these birds, says Mr. Crellin, ‘on a pond 
where there were many trout. I saw him dive three times, 
and each time he came up he had a trout in his mouth,’ 
Jardine (vol. iv. p. 238) writes: ‘Where we have 
observed them, ledges of rock have been selected, and so 
broad that.the birds, if shot dead, would not fall from them. 
On the Ross of Kirkcudbright, St. Bees Head, and the Isle 
of Man, there are several breeding places of this description.’ 
The nesting colonies in Man are now few and small; two 
only are known to the writer. One of these, on our west 
coast, was first noticed by Mr. Graves and myself on 8th 
June 1895, when it was on broad ledges near the summit 
of a sheer, though not lofty, cliff overhanging deep water, 
and consisted of some twelve nests. These nests, though 
in dizzy situations and on shelves with a nasty outward 
inclination, could likely have been walked to by a man of 
strong nerve. In 1899 this colony shifted about half a mile 
away to a somewhat similar position, but at a much greater 
height and less accessible, with a large, deep water cave 
beneath. 
The other settlement has about the same number of 
nests, some close together under the edge of a steep preci- 
pice, while others are scattered about the adjoining cliffs, 
The principal site of this colony seems also to have been 
shifted a little within the last few years. <A clutch of 
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