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dives very well. It is a great deftroyer of fifh. 
Its feathers are of a blackifh colour, gloffed- with 
green. 
_°. The Cormorant ts fo greedy, and fifhes fo well, 
| that he deftroys more than a flock of fome other 
birds: as he can dive for along time, and fwims 
under water {wift as an arrow, his prey feldom 
 ¢feapes him: he is often obliged to throw it up 
“into the air, and he catches it fo as to fwallow 
the head firft, that he may not be hurt by the fins. 
In China, they teach the Cormorant to fifth: 
they put a ring round his neck, to hinder his 
{wallowing, and he brings the fifhes as faft as he 
catches them to his mafter.- When his mafter has 
enough, he takes away the ring, and lets the Cor- 
morant fifh for himfelf. 
There are Cormorants on the lake BaikaJ, and 
inKamfchatka, in Siberia. They fleep in great 
pumbers upon the crags of rocks; fometimes 
they fall off in their fleep, and then they are de- 
voured by the foxes, who are watching for them. 
The Cormorants there, are fo very ftupid, that 
| the people of Kamfchatka often take them by a 
, knot, that flips, which they endeavour to throw 
over their heads; the filly bird only moves his 
head on one (Me; until he is caught, but never 
_ attempts:to fly away. 
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