The cormorant has a certain sinister appearance equalled by no other bird, so that its introduction in Milton's "Paradise Lost" (Book IV., 194) seems particularly appropriate. Satan, it will be remembered, is likened to a cormorant:—
So clomb this first grand Thief into God's fold
. . . . . . .
Thence up he flew, and in the Tree of Life,
The middle tree and highest there that grew,
Sat like a cormorant.
Photo by W. Saville-Kent, F.Z.S.] [Milford-on-Sea.
YOUNG PELICANS.
Young pelicans never develop long down-feathers, like gannets and frigate-birds.