CORMORANT. NAT AT. PHALACROCORAX. 451 



Shag or Crane, Will. (Angl.) 330. pi. 6? Penn. Br. Zool, 2. 610. No. 292. 



pi. 182 Arct. Zool. 2. 508 Lath. Syn. 6. 598. Levin's Br. Birds, 7. 



264 Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 337- 

 Crested Shag, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 5ti5.--Lath. Syn. 6. 600 Tkte. Orn. 



Diet, and Sup Flem. Br. Anim. 118. No. 117- 

 Shag Cormorant, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 13. 82. 

 Crested Cormorant, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 13. 83. 



PROVINCIAL Green Scout, Green Gormer. 



AFTER an examination of a great number of specimens, 

 and diligent inquiries upon various parts of the coasts of 

 England and Scotland, I have not been able either to meet with 

 or hear of a single bird that can satisfactorily be referred to 

 TEMMINCK'S Carbo Graculus. This he considers identical 

 with the Pelecanus Graculus of LINN^US and LATHAM, al- 

 though his description does not coincide with that of the lat- 

 ter, nor with the Shag of our British ornithologists, which 

 has always been supposed to represent the Graculus of the 

 different systems, but which, from the descriptions given of 

 it in its various states of age and plumage, undoubtedly be- 

 longs to TEMMINCK'S other species, the Carbo cristatus, or 

 " Cormoran Largup." This is evident from the stated di- 

 mensions of the bill, as well as colour of the adults during the 

 summer plumage ; for all our writers agree in describing the 

 head and neck of the British Shag as being of a deep glossy 

 black-green, without any intermixture of white feathers, or 

 any patch of the same colour upon the thighs. Now, both 

 of these are given by TEMMINCK as distinctive charac- 

 ters of his Carbo Graculus, which bird appears to resemble 

 the Common Cormorant in every respect, but that of inferioi 

 size, shorter bill, and twelve instead of fourteen tail-feathers, 

 in which latter point it agrees with the Crested species. 

 Presuming upon TEMMINCK'S usual correctness, and that 

 his Graculus is an actually existing species, I have adopted 

 his specific name of Cristatus for the bird now under consi- 

 deration, and well known as the Shag and Crested Shag of 

 our native authors. Dr FLEMING, it ought to be observed, 

 retains both the Graculus and Cristatus in his History of 

 British Animals, and even adds the epithet of " Common" 

 to the former ; but upon what authority he does so, I am at 



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