THE GREEN CORMORANT. 
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Swanlinbar, in the county of Cavan, under Ben Eachlin, and 
nearly thirty English miles from the sea. The lad who caught 
the specimen stated that it was accompanied by four more birds 
of the same kind. It was quite strong, and fed well on fish. 
On the 16th of September that year, the other individual, an 
immature female, obtained near Elorence Court, about twenty 
miles inland, was sent to me. I have very lately learned from 
the Bev. G. Eobinson, who resides near Lough Neagh, that the 
green cormorant habitually frequents that great sheet of water, 
where he has not, however, seen more than two in company, or 
more than that number in one day ; — they were generally sun- 
ning themselves on some of the islands when observed. 
M'Skimmin, in 1823, mentions this bird, as well as the com- 
mon cormorant, breeding at the Gobbins, but both are believed 
to have relinquished the locality for that purpose. I have known 
the species under consideration to be killed there during the 
breeding season ; and at other times in the neighbouring marine 
lough of Larne. 
Much the best account we have of this bird in any breeding- 
haunt on the coast of Ireland, is from Dr. J. D. Marshall, who 
informs us, in his published memoir, that about the 1st of July, 
1834 — “We found this corvorant (P. cristatus) in pairs, fre- 
quenting the numerous caves with which the northern and western 
shores of Bathlin are indented. They formed their nests on the 
high ledges of rock, almost touching the summit of the caves ; 
the nest was composed of fuci of various kinds, matted and plas- 
tered together; the eggs were of a bluish-green colour. We 
sometimes, by good management, entered the caves ere the corvo- 
rants had left, and at such times we found them sitting, with the 
neck and head thrust over the ledge of the rock, looking down on 
the boat as it made its way to the inner extremity of the cave. 
On firing our guns, they would drop into the water as if they had 
been shot, and, with great expertness, dive under the boat, and 
make their way out to sea. This species seemed much more 
numerous than the common cormorant (P. carlo).” 
The gamekeeper at Horn Head stated in 1832, that the green 
