I have before described the carrion-vulture of Polyborus.

There are some other hawks, owls, and a few small land-birds.

The waterfowl are particularly numerous, and they must formerly, from the accounts of the old navigators, have been much more so.

One day I observed a cormorant playing with a fish which it had caught.

Eight times successively the bird let its prey go, then dived after it, and although in deep water, brought it each time to the surface.