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cormorant builds in the clefts of rocks out of sight, lays in May, 
and that about three hundred, perhaps, breed there. Two gentle- 
men, then resident in Dunfanaghy, the nearest village, assured 
me that they had, in the preceding week, from a boat, killed both 
species of cormorant on their nests within caves. 
At the Hards Islands, off the Galway coast, one of these birds 
was shot on the 1st of August, 1844, and they were remarked 
to be numerous there.* In the island of Arranmore, numbers 
build, and the eggs, with those of the common species, were 
brought from the rocks, at the beginning of June 1835, to 
Mr. E. Ball, who killed there, without seeing it, a fine adult 
male. Having fired at a glaucous gull without observing any 
other bird, he found “ five herring-gulls had fallen near it, and 
on landing and walking up the beach, the cormorant was found 
with a shot through his brain, just dying.” On the coast of 
Kerry this species is said, like the common cormorant, to breed 
on all the precipitous headlands, Kerry and Brandon Heads, 
Muckalaw Eock, &c. ;t both species nidify at the cliff called 
Esk, and at both sides the entrance into Dingle harbour ; the 
smaller having its nests about one-third the height of the cliff 
from the water, and the larger about the same distance from the 
top : J — the small Skellig rock and Magharee islands are like- 
wise the breeding-haunts of P. graculus , which is considered by 
Mr. E. Chute to be more numerous in all localities on the coast 
of Kerry, than P. carlo. “ Between the Eeannies and the So- 
vereign Islands, on the coast of Cork, the green cormorants are 
not numerous, and appear less so than they really are, on account 
of breeding in single pairs, far apart from each other, on snug 
little shelves and ledges, on the same part of the coast as the 
common species. One or two pair breed on the Sovereign Is- 
lands. Both cormorants appear to construct their nests of dried 
sea- weed and grass.” § Great numbers nidify in the cliffs at Ard- 
more, county Waterford ;|| in those of the county Wexford they 
also build, but are considered, on the coast of the latter gene- 
* Rev. Gr. Robinson. f Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald, jun. 
\ Hon. Mr. Moleyns. § Mr. R. Warren, jun. || Mr. Ball. 
