. British birds . Fig. 3. ONE OF THE OLD BIRDS FLYING AWAY, AND THE NEST.(Photographed by Miss E. L. Turner.). Fig. 4. THE YOUNG. FIRST ATTEMPTS AT WING EXERCISES, JULY 7th. {Photographed by Miss E. L. Turiier.) VOL. vm.] CORMORANTS IN NORFOLK. 133 and on lofty trees in Norfolk with the Herons {Turneron Birds, edited by A. H. Evans, 1903, p. 111). Sir in his MS. notes and letters, written between1605 and 1682, printed with notes by T. Southwell in1902, states (p. 11) that Cormorants built at Reedhamupon trees from whence King charles the first waswont to bee supplyed. There is no evid
. British birds . Fig. 3. ONE OF THE OLD BIRDS FLYING AWAY, AND THE NEST.(Photographed by Miss E. L. Turner.). Fig. 4. THE YOUNG. FIRST ATTEMPTS AT WING EXERCISES, JULY 7th. {Photographed by Miss E. L. Turiier.) VOL. vm.] CORMORANTS IN NORFOLK. 133 and on lofty trees in Norfolk with the Herons {Turneron Birds, edited by A. H. Evans, 1903, p. 111). Sir in his MS. notes and letters, written between1605 and 1682, printed with notes by T. Southwell in1902, states (p. 11) that Cormorants built at Reedhamupon trees from whence King charles the first waswont to bee supplyed. There is no evidence to showwhen they ceased to breed at Reedham, but it is statedin Lubbocks Fauna of Norfolk (new edition 1879, p. 174)that Cormorants nested in Herons nests in the woodsof Herringfleet on the shores of Fritton Lake in Suffolkoccasionally, but not regularly ; that in 1825 there weremany nests, and in 1827 not one. Since that time thereis no record of Cormorants having bred in Norfolk orSuffolk. I paid my first visit to the birds depicted here onJuly 7th. After prospecting from all points of view and tak
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