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Title: British birds with their nests and eggs
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: American Museum of Natural History Library

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t itis a resident, and it is to be met with in nearly all the islands of the easternArchipelago. One of us has noted its nesting places by the rivers in theinterior of Sumatra, and on the trees bordering the elevated lake in central Burn.In Africa it breeds in many localities north of the Sahara, and probably also inSouth Africa as well, although its eggs have not yet been taken there. It is aresident, a prolific breeder, and a voracious destroyer of the introduced fishes, inNew Zealand and Tasmania; in Australia it is only less abundant. It ranges allalong the eastern shores of N. America, from the south of Canada to as far northas Greenland. Bejond the breeding range here roughly defined, the Cormorantis found as a winter migrant, by the coasts, lakes, and rivers of many districtsin all those Continents, where fish is abundant. In the United Kingdom it breeds wherever a suitable site presents itself; onledged rocks on the coast; on an ivy clad ruined wall (as at Castle Carra, in Co.
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The Cormorant. >^s Mayo) ; in higli trees near tlie sea, or even far from the coast, generally near wellstocked rivers and lakes. Mr. H. Scebohin mentions an interesting colony ofCormorants on trees, which he saw on an i.sland in Lough Cooter, near Gort, in thesouth of Galway. It was ten miles from the sea, and there were fifty nests built onlofty trees. If there be no rocks or high trees, or the country be flat, in a localitywhich they have selected as suital)le, they will place their nest on the ground, inpollard willows, in low bushes, or even in swamp tussocks just above the surfaceof the water, as Sir Walter Buller has recorded of them in New Zealand. Dr.Sclater and the late Mr. W. A. Forbes found them in Hoorster Mere, in Holland,building on a circular space, perhaps fift) yards in diameter, cleared of reeds, inwhich the Cormorants nests stood thick together on the swamp3 soil. The Cor-morant, which invariably nests in communities, forms, when it builds by the sea, itsnest of

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