Excerpt from A History of British Birds, Vol. 8 The Cormorant is a bird of almost universal distribution, and belongs to each of the four quarters of the globe. It is also accommodating in the situations it frequents, and makes itself equally at home on sea or land, both near the shore and farther from it, in barren and rocky places, as well as in those that are wooded, the neighbourhood of buildings, and the most lonely wilderness, rivers and lakes, fresh-water and salt. In Europe it occurs on the shores of Norway and Iceland, and then in the south is seen in the Black Sea and the Grecian Archipelago, as also on the Swiss and other lakes and rivers. In Asia, in Siberia, Russia, and the Icy Sea, the Caspian Sea, and India; in America, from Greenland and Hudson's Bay to Canada and the United States. The Cormorant used formerly to breed near the lighthouse at Flamborough Head, in Yorkshire, as it does still, or did not long since, in the neighbouring rocks of Rainelifie, before Buckton Hall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.