6io 



SHAG. 



Class II, 



WldeUgbted the beauties of Paradife : arid// devi* 

 fing death on the tree of life * 



Theie birds have been trained to nfli like falcons 

 to fowl. JVhitclock tells us, that he had a call of 

 them manned like hawks, and which would come 

 to hand. He took much pleafure in them, and re- 

 lates, that the belt he had was one prefented him by 

 Mr. Wood, Majier of the Corvorants to Charles I. 

 Ic is well known that the Chinefe make great ufe of 

 thefe birds, or a congenerous fort, in fiftiing •, and 

 that not for amufement, but profit f. 



292. Shac. Corvns aquaticus minor. AUr. 

 erv. 111. 109. 

 The Shag, called in the 

 North of England the Crane. 

 It'll, cm. 330. 

 Corvus aquaticus minor. 

 Craculus palmipcs didlus. 

 Raii fyn. av. 123. 



Le petit Cormoran. Brijpm 



av. VI. 516. 

 Pelecanus graculus. Lin. fyjl. 



217. 

 Phalacrocorax criftatus. Aor- 



<vegis Top Skarv. Brunnicb 



ornith. 123. 

 Br. Zool. 159. 



^pHE fling is much inferior in fize to the corvo- 

 Descrip. jL rant . t he length is twenty-feven inches j the 

 breadth three feet fix: the weight three pounds 

 three quarters. The bill is four inches long, and 

 more (lender than that of the preceding : the head 

 is adorned with a creft two inches long, pointing 



* Paradife Lojl, Book IV. 1. 194, &C 

 f Duhaldi I, 316. 



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