CORMORANTS BREEDING IN CAPTIVITY. 
Many readers of Land and Water, and 
especially those of the ornithological type, 
will be interested to hear something about 
my Cormorants, which bred for the first 
time in captivity in the Zoological Gar- 
dens, Begent’s Park, last Spring, whilst 
being there on “deposit.” I think it is 
pretty well known that out of three eggs 
two were hatched and reared. Of these, 
one was presented to the Zoological Gar- 
dens, whilst the other bird I removed and 
trained. Probably the “Water Nymph,” 
for such is the name I have given this 
young one, has derived great instruction 
from old “ Kao-wang,” its mother, whose 
experience over nearly twenty years must 
be great, for she has turned out a most 
wonderful fisher. She has been fishing in 
Yorkshire with the old one, and their score 
in three weeks is two hundred and twen- 
ty-six fish. All kinds of fish were taken, 
but they consisted chiefly of trout. — F. 
H. Salvin in L,and and Water, Lon- 
don, England. 
Q.&O. Vll. Dec. 15.1882. p. IfZ. 
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/ Odd Materials in a Cormorant’s Nest. — Cormorants breed not omy^y^;/; 
on high rocks and cliffs, but also at times on low islands, where their nests ^ 
are elevated only a few feet above high-water mark. Amongst the sticks 
and other litter which they make use of for building, I have seen children’s 
whips and spades, a gentleman’s light cane, and part of the handle of a 
parasol, all of which I suppose the birds had picked up floating at sea. — 
E. T. Booth (Dyke Road, Brighton). 
