. Cassell's natural history . Where wings or fins were equally at conquerors in many a desperate dragged their spoils to land, and goiged at leisure. • Another picture, from the same exquisitely graphic pen, may well be added:— Day by lessons, exercises, and amusementsEmployed the old to teach, the young to floating on the blue lagoon behold sire and dam in swan-like beauty steei-ing,Their cygnets following through the foaming wake,Picking the leaves of plants, pursuing catching at the bubbles as they brake ; • Till on some nfinor fry
. Cassell's natural history . Where wings or fins were equally at conquerors in many a desperate dragged their spoils to land, and goiged at leisure. • Another picture, from the same exquisitely graphic pen, may well be added:— Day by lessons, exercises, and amusementsEmployed the old to teach, the young to floating on the blue lagoon behold sire and dam in swan-like beauty steei-ing,Their cygnets following through the foaming wake,Picking the leaves of plants, pursuing catching at the bubbles as they brake ; • Till on some nfinor fry, in reedy flapping pinions and unsparing well-taught scholars plied their double fish in troubled waters, and sccmeThe petty captives in theii maiden pouches ;Then hurry with their banquet to the shore,With feet, wings, breast, half-swimming and half-flying ;And when their pens grew strong to fight the buflct with the breakers on the reef,The parents put them to severer THE COMMON CORMOUANI. The Cormorant, or Corvorant, as it is sometimes called, iuluiLits the New as well as theOld Continent. In the latter it is very widely diifused, being spread over a considerableportion of Kurope, especially (he North. It never quits the Gulf oi Bothnia till that inlet is congealed, and then it may be seenon trees and houses in Sweden, resting on its passage to the ocean. Oa the Dutch coast,where it arrives in INIarch, it is very numerous; nor is it uncommon on many of theBritish shores, building its nest of sticks, sea-weed, and grass, on the highest parts ofclifis that impend over the sea, and laying three or more green eggs about the size ofthose of a goose. This bird swims very low in the water; even in (lie sou tlic body is deeply immersed, Iliiil iirrdcora X Cnrlio. THE CORMORANT, 621 little more than the neck and liead being visible above the surface. It dives mostexpertly, pursuing the fish that forms its food with great activ
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