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PHALACROCORAX GRACULUS. THE GREEN 

 CORMORANT. 



GREEN CORMORANT. BLACK CORMORANT. CRESTED CORMORANT. 

 SHAG. SCART. SCARY. SCARBH. GREEN SCOUT. 



Pelecanus Graculus. Linn. Syst. Nat, I. 217. 



Pelecanus Graculus. Lath. Ind. Omith. IL 887. 



Shag and Crested Shag. Mont. Ornith Diet, and Supplt. 



Cormoi'an largup. Carbo cristatus. Tcmm. Man. d' Ornith. II. 900. 



Crested Shag, or Green Cormorant. Phalacrocorax cristatus. Selb. Illustr. 



II. 450. 

 Phalacrocorax cristatus. Crested Shag. Jenyns. Brit. Vert. Anim. 262. 



Length about two feet and a quarter ; tail of ttvehe 

 feathers / imbricated feathers of the back ovate, rather acute, 

 with velvety margins. Adult in winter crestless ; the head, 

 nech, lower parts, middle and hi7id part of the back, blackish- 

 green; the feathers of the fore pa7^t andsides of the back, with 

 the wing-coverts and secondary quills of a lighter green, with 

 deep black margins ; some scattered, extremely minute, filiform, 

 pencil-tipped ichite p)lumidets on the neck. Adidt in spring 

 coloured as in winter, with the addition of a tuft of oblong, 

 erect, incurved feathers, about two inches in length, on the top 

 of the head. Young loith the upper imrt of the head and the 

 neck greenish-broivn ; the rest of the upp)er parts darker, the 

 imbricated feathers of the back and wings with glossy margins; 

 the lower parts brownish-grey ; the throat and part of the 

 breast inclining to white. 



Male in Winter. — The Green or Crested Cormorant is 

 much inferior in size to tlic species ah-eady described, which 

 it closely resembles in form ; having the body elongated and 

 depressed ; the neck long and rather thick ; the head oblong, 

 flattened above, and narrowed anteriorly. The bill is pro- 



