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will be found in the Supplement to his f Ornithological Dictionary/ 
The virtues of the common and green cormorants as food, are not 
much enhanced by a note from the late Mr. G. Matthews ; that 
“ they were both eaten by the Norwegian sailors ; — when they 
had nothing else” ! Audubon (vol. iii. p. 458) furnishes good 
information on the breeding-haunts, young, &c., of the cormo- 
rant, as observed in North America. 
THE GEEEN COEMOEANT. 
Shag; Crested Shag or Cormorant. 
Phalacrocorax graculus , Linn, (sp.) 
Pelecanus ,, ,, 
Carlo cristatus, Eabr. (sp.), Temm. 
Is resident, inhabiting all quarters of the coast, but 
generally less numerous than the common species. 
Montagu remarks, in his f Ornithological Dictionary/ that this 
bird never visits fresh water; and in the Supplement of that 
work records one instance of its doing so. Mr. Selby, too, 
mentions it as “ never frequenting fresh- water lakes or rivers” 
(p. 452). The idea that this species is strictly marine, and differs 
from the great cormorant in this respect, is very general. In 
M f Skimmn/s f History of Carrickfergus/ where the latter is said 
to visit Lough Neagh daily, the other is stated never to leave 
“ the salt water ;” and at Horn Head, a reward is offered for the 
destruction of the one, owing to a belief that it feeds on young 
salmon, while the other is considered innocent of all evil ; — i. e., to 
man. This is borne out chiefly by the gamekeeper, in so far that 
in its nest he finds only sea-fish; chiefly herring fry and sand-eels. 
1 have been favoured by the Earl of Enniskillen with two spe- 
cimens of the green cormorant, taken far inland on different occa- 
sions. One of them, in the month of January 1839 (?), and I 
think soon after the great hurricane, was captured alive, near 
