Identifier: handbookguidetob00live (find matches)
Title: Handbook and guide to the British birds on exhibition in the Lord Derby Natural History Museum, Liverpool
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Liverpool Museum (Liverpool, England)
Subjects: Liverpool Museum (Liverpool, England) Birds
Publisher: Liverpool, C. Tinling
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ir, is usually placed on some inaccessible ledge on a cliff andoccasionally in a tree. The greyish-white eggs, blotched more or lesswith reddish-brown and lilac (see British Bird Egg Cabinet, drawer 9),are laid early in April, and the young are on the wing early in August. Case 190. GANNET OR SOLAN GOOSE (Sula bassana). This species is found throughout British waters during the autumnand winter months, when it may frequently be seen in Liverpool Bay.In spring it repairs in countless numbers to some isolated rock to breed.The most noted breeding colonies are Lundy Island, Grassholme, offPembrokeshire, Ailsa Crag, off the Butt of Lewis, Boreray (St. Kilda),the Bass Rock, the Bull Rock, off Co. Cork, and the Little Skelhg.Fish, which are caught by plunging, often from a great height, form itsfood. Only one egg, of a pale blue overlaid with a chalky white coating(see British Bird Egg Cabinet, drawer 10), is laid in a nest made ofseaweed and grass The young, naked when hatched, soon become
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31 covered with white down, replaced in a few weeks with dark featherstipped with white. There are four distinct changes of plumage, themature plumage notjbeing assumed until the fifth year. Case 191. 8HAG OR GREEN CORMORANT (Phalacrocorax graculus). This species is also known as the Crested Cormorant, from thecurved tuft-like crest, wdiich is assumed in the early spring and shedin May. Though essentially marine and common along all the ruggedcoasts of the British Islands, it is not so common locally owang to thelack of nesting sites. It is an expert diver and feeds principally on seafishes. The nest, generally placed on a ledge of rock, is made of seaweedand other badly-smelling materials plastered together. From three tofive eggs, with a pale blue undershell thickly encrusted withchalky white (see British Bird Egg Cabinet, drawer 10), are laid earlyin May. The manner in which the young are fed is remarkable. Theparent bird, with its gullet filled with fish, bends over the young,open

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