CORMORANT . — Graculus Carlo. 
CRESTED CORMORANT . — Graculus crista lus. 
The common Cormorant is well-known for its voracious habits, its capacities of 
digestion having long become proverbial. 
This bird is common on all our rocky coasts, where it may be seen sitting on 
some projecting ledge, or diving and swimming with great agility, and ever and 
anon returning to its resting-place on the rock. It is an admirable swimmer and 
a good diver, and chases fish with equal perseverance and success, both qualities 
being needful to satisfy the wants of its ever-craving maw. Eels are favourite 
morsels with the Cormorant, which, if the eel should be small, swallows it alive in 
spite of the writhings and struggling of its victim, and the many retrogressions 
which it will make from the interior of its devourer, until it is finally accommodated 
and digested, the latter being a process of wonderful celerity. 
Another well-known British species of this genus is the Crested Cormorant, 
Green Cormorant, or Shag, a bird which can at once be distinguished from the 
preceding species by the green colour of the plumage and the difference in size. 
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