Feb 1883
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1883natur..27s.366r&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 27, Issue 694, pp. 366 (1883).
Physics
Scientific paper
ON reading the letter of W. Steadman Aldis in NATURE (voL xxvii. p. 338) yesterday, I was reminded by a person present that some years ago, when in Orkney, I pointed out an appearance that most people unaccustomed to witness it might have taken for a great sea-monster. This was no hing more or less than some hundreds of cormorants or ``scarps'' flying in a continuous line close to the water, the deception being increased by the resemblance of a head caused by several ``scarps'' in a cluster heading the column, and by the ``lumpy'' seas of a swift tideway frequently intervening and hiding for an instant part of the black lines, causing the observer to-not unnaturally-imagine that the portions so hidden had gone under water. The speed of the cormorant on the wing may be fairly estimated at thirty miles an hour or more.
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