CORMORANT.
PHALACROCORAX CARBO (Linn.).
Pelecanus carbo, Linn. S. N. i. p. 216 (1766).
Halieus cormoranus, Naum. xi. p. 52. '
Phalacrocorax carbo, Macg. v. p. 380; Hewitson, ii. p. 471;
Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 143; Dresser, vi. p. 151.
Grand Cormoran, French; Kormoran, German; Cuervo
marino, Pato cuervo, Spanish.
The Cormorant is common locally on the coast of the
United Kingdom and its adjacent islands, but in certain
districts is less abundant than the other British
representative of the genus,—the Shag, or Green
Cormorant. The present species is, however, much
less exclusively maritime in habits than the Shag, and
occasionally nests at a considerable distance from salt
water. As a rule, however, in so far as our Islands are
concerned, the present species generally selects the
ledges of lofty sea cliffs as breeding-sites, and very large
settlements exist in many localities of this kind all
around our Islands. In certain inland places in Ireland
this bird nests on trees or bushes, and did so within
the memory of man at Fritton in Suffolk. In my own