. The birds of Iona & Mull . LETTER XIII. 103. the law ! This continues till the Heron alights or is driven + - far inland, or till the Gulls get tired of the I am very sorry to hear of the fate of the Cormorants put it into too frail a box, and the stamping in the post officemust have broken it. I have forwarded another by a privatehand, but it is not such a fine specimen, as it has been a littlescraped. The natural colour of the Cormorants egg seems to bea sea-green, but they have a rough coating of a dirty whitesubstance. This was very remarkable upon the egg I sent youfirst.
. The birds of Iona & Mull . LETTER XIII. 103. the law ! This continues till the Heron alights or is driven + - far inland, or till the Gulls get tired of the I am very sorry to hear of the fate of the Cormorants put it into too frail a box, and the stamping in the post officemust have broken it. I have forwarded another by a privatehand, but it is not such a fine specimen, as it has been a littlescraped. The natural colour of the Cormorants egg seems to bea sea-green, but they have a rough coating of a dirty whitesubstance. This was very remarkable upon the egg I sent youfirst. I shot the hen and then took the egg, which was the onlyone in the nest. Upon dissecting the bird, I found another eggjust ready for laying of a beautiful pure green colour, with nowhite stains on it. 1 Edward, the Aberdeenshire naturalist, gives an animated description of asuccessful attack by a Carrion Crow and two Hoodies upon a Heron, for the pur-pose of making him disgorge the food he was taking to his family {Life of aScotch Naturalist,
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