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GREEN CORMORANT. 
CRESTED CORMORANT. SKART. SCARP. CRESTED SCARP. 
SHAG. SHAG CORMORANT. 
CRESTED SHAG. GREEN SCOUT. COMMON SHAG. 
Pelecanus cristatus , 
“ graculus, 
Phalacrocorax cristatus, 
4 ‘ graculus, 
Carbo cristatus, 
Pennant 
Montagu. Bewick. 
Stephens. Fleming. Sei.by. 
Jenyns. Gould. 
Stephens. Fleming. 
Temminck. 
Pelecanus —A Pelican. 
Cristatus— Crested. 
This species is common on the northern shores of Europe, 
those of Norway and Sweden, Lapland, Finland, Russia, Ice¬ 
land, and the Ferroe Isles, and is not unfrequent about the 
islands of the Mediterranean—Corsica, Sardinia, and Cyprus; 
also in Asia, both on the coasts and lakes of Siberia, and 
Kamtschatka; so too in America. 
In the county of York a young bird of this kind was 
shot by the keeper of Andrew Lawson, Esq., at Rawcliff, 
near Boroughbridge, towards the end of October, 1848. In 
Oxfordshire one was obtained on the River Isis, near Oxford; 
and in Berkshire one near Pangbourne, in September, 1794. 
In July, 1851, a pair of these birds, in immature plumage, 
were killed at Burton Joyce, on the River Trent, six miles 
from Nottingham, as Mr. John Felkin, Junior, informed me, 
and one of them was obligingly presented to me by that 
gentleman. A specimen was shot near Oxford in the beginning 
of 1851. 
In Surrey it has occurred near Godaiming. It is thought 
very rare at Yarmouth, in Norfolk, and the specimens which 
occur are chiefly seen in the autumn, and mostly immature. 
In Cornwall one, a young bird, was shot near Pennance 
Point, Swanpool, Falmouth, in 1854. One killed at the 
