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dives very well. ‘Tt j is a great anal of fifh. 
Its feathers are of a blackith ee glotled with 
) grech. | 
‘The Cormorant is fo Breed), ir fithes fo well a 
. . 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 
_ efcapes 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. 
Tn China, they teach the Cormorant to fith : 
they put a rine round his neck, to hinder his 
fwallowing, 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 ow 
morant fifth for himfelf. 
There are Cormorants on the lake Baikal, and. 
in Kam{chatka, in Siberia. They fleep in great. 
‘numbers upon the crags of rocks ; fometimes 
they { fall off in their fleep, and then ‘les are de- 
--youred 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 fide, until he’ is caught, but never 
Z (ie to fly away. 
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