. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . Tree containing 30 nests of the Little Ijlack and Little Black and White Cormorant. Loc, Lavadia, Clarence River. {Sole the four men up the tree at the nests.). Canoe displayed with nests and egRs of the Little Black and Little Black and WhiteCormorants. Loc., Lavadia, Clarence Kiver. 53 No. inA Campbeira No. of No. Huok. Kkks. 309 724 310 725 3 7-S THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. Cormorants, was observed driving the shoals of fish of
. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . Tree containing 30 nests of the Little Ijlack and Little Black and White Cormorant. Loc, Lavadia, Clarence River. {Sole the four men up the tree at the nests.). Canoe displayed with nests and egRs of the Little Black and Little Black and WhiteCormorants. Loc., Lavadia, Clarence Kiver. 53 No. inA Campbeira No. of No. Huok. Kkks. 309 724 310 725 3 7-S THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. Cormorants, was observed driving the shoals of fish off the weed-covered flats, where they were pro-tected, into the clear and shallower water, where they could be more relentlessly attacked. The armyof birds poised, wheeled, and plunged amongst the shoals in a serried line, and drove the fish beforethem irresistibly. The water would boil for a few minutes with the bodies of the plunging birds, who,as if at a given signal, would rise clear to sight their prey, and again and again swoop down uponthem, until the fish were driven into the desired place. They feasted until they were gorged. It willbe seen therefore that the destructive habits of these birds, amongst young fish, is a very serious matter,and is the cause of great loss, and some steps should be
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