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(without typos) from the publisher. 1901. Not illustrated. Excerpt:
... chapter vii Watching Shags and Guillemots I have referred once
or twice before to the cormorant (including under this title the
shag), and once to the guillemot. In this chapter I shall treat of
both these birds a little more at large, for in the first place
they are salient amongst sea fowl, giving a distinctive character
to the wild places that they haunt, and secondly, I have watched
them closely and patiently. Both are interesting, and the cormorant
especially has a winning and amiable character, which I shall the
more enjoy bringing before the public because I think that up to
the present scant justice has been done to it. Something, perhaps,
of the wild and fierce attaches to the popular idea of this bird,
due, no doubt, both to its appearance, which has in it something
dark and evil-looking, and to the stern, wild scenery of rock and
sea with which this is in consonance, and by which it is
emphasised. Perhaps the mere name even, which has by no means a
harmless sound, has something to do with it. "As with its wings
aslant Sails the fierce cormorant Seeking some rocky haunt," says
Longfellow--lines which, to me at least, call up a graphic picture
of the bird, though I do not know that the first contains anything
which is specially characteristic of it; and Milton has
recorded--as we may, perhaps, assume--the way in which its uncouth
shape appealed to him by making it that which his grand angel-devil
chooses, on one occasion, to assume. On another one, it may be
remembered, Satan takes for his purposes the form of a toad, and on
each, no doubt, the poet, who never appears to yield to the strong
temptation (as one would imagine) of loving his great creation, has
intended to conyey a general idea of fitness and symbolical
similarity as between the disguised b...
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