106 PELECANIDJE. 



Phalacrocorax graculus. SHAG. 



Pelecanus Graculus, Linn&m, S. N. i. p. 217 (1766). 



Halieus graculus, Naum. xi. p. 88. 



Phalacrocorax graculus, Macg. v. p. 392; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. 



p. 486 ; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 490 ; Gould, v. pi. 53 ; Dresser, 



vi. p. 163. 



Phalacrocorax cristatus, Hewitson, p. 478. 

 Graculus Linnseii, Gray, p. 246. 

 Graculus cristatus, Harting, p. 75. 

 The Shag, or Green Cormorant, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 378. 



Graculus = a Jackdaw, in classical Latin ; akin to garrio = I chatter, gallus 

 = a cock, &c. It was called " graculus. palmipes" by the old writers. 



Especially abundant on the western coasts of Scotland and 

 Ireland, and, although somewhat local, also to be found 

 breeding from Dorsetshire to Lundy Island in the Scilly 

 Islands, and up the coast of Wales ; rarer elsewhere. It 

 inhabits the Western Palaearctic Region. 



Genus SULA, Brisson, Ornith. vi. p. 49/ (1760). 



Sula, latinized from the Norse Sule (Briinnich, Orn. Bor. 1764, p. 31), which 

 is said to mean an awkward fellow, a dolt. 



Sula bassana. GANNET. 



Pelecanus Bassanus, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 217 (1766). 



Dysporus bassanus, Naum. xi. p. 14. 



Sula alba, Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 489; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 493. 



Sula bassana, Hewitson, p. 474; Gould, v. pi. 54; Gray, 



p. 245 ; Harting, p. 75 ; Dresser, vi. p. 181 ; Macg. v. 



p. 405. 

 The Gannet, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 381. 



Bassana = of the Bass Hock in the Firth of Forth, because it was supposed 

 to breed nowhere else. 



A breeding bird in several localities on the British coasts, 

 and found round them throughout the year. It inhabits both 

 shores of the North Atlantic, generally migrating southwards 

 in winter. 



