THE GREEN CORMORANT, 
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rally, to be about five to a hundred of the other (P. carlo)* 
At the island of Lambay (Dublin coast) they annually breed ;t 
about fifty birds were observed there one day in June 1850. J 
I have seen specimens which were killed in Dublin Bay, and 
was informed, in 1837, that about the month of November or 
December, every year, six or seven of these birds appear near 
the Pigeon-house battery there. § They are rarely met with far 
up Belfast Bay, like the common cormorant ; in the tidal portion 
of the river Lagan, at Ormeau, one was shot in April 1827. 
On the sands of the river Bann, about a quarter of a mile from 
where it joins the ocean, I remarked the following incongruous 
flock of birds on the 9th of July, 1833 ; — seven green cormo- 
rants, two herons, several curlews, five black-beaded, several of 
the greater black-backed, and a very large flock of herring-gulls ; 
these last being in one, two, three, and four years old plumage. 
In the stomach of a green cormorant, shot in January 1838, con- 
taining as food the remains of fishes only, I found three pebbles, 
— one, an inch and a quarter, another an inch, and the third 
three-quarters of an inch in breadth, but none more than half as 
much in thickness. 
Sir William Jardine gives a very interesting description of this 
species in its breeding-stations, several of which he visited. || 
Carlo pygmaus, Temm. — A cormorant of a blackish-green 
colour, smaller than C. crist atus, and I have no doubt C. pyg- 
maus, flew close past H.M.S. Beacon , when in the harbour of 
Syra, on May 7th, 1841; a fact worth noticing, as neither Tem- 
minck nor Degland^f is aware of its inhabiting that quarter. On 
the 10th of June I saw, at a rocky islet to the north-east of Port 
Naussa, in the island of Paros** another small cormorant in a 
different state of plumage — (back greyish-green, belly white)— 
which I considered to be of this species. 
* Mr. Poole. f Mr. R. J. Montgomery. 1 Mr. Watters. 
§ Mr. H. H. Dombrain. || * Brit. Birds,’ vol. iv. p. 240. 
* Ornitbologie Europeenne.’ 1849. 
** Pelican (P. onocrotalus ). Mr. Wilkinson, jun., of Syra, described to me as a 
