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PELECANID^!. 



posed. The Shag has been caught in a crab-pot fixed at 

 twenty fathoms (one hundred and twenty feet) below the 

 surface. 



The geographical range of this bird in the north is very 

 similar to that of the Cormorant, but the Cormorant goes 

 to the eastward, and is found at the Caspian Sea and in 

 India, where the Green species is not seen, but has been 

 brought from South Africa by Dr. Andrew Smith. 



In the adult bird the bill is dusky black, the base of the 

 under mandible and the naked skin about the gape yel- 

 lowish green ; the irides green ; the head crested in the 

 spring ; the crown, neck, breast, and all the under surface 

 of the body a uniform rich dark green ; back, and wing- 

 coverts dark green, each feather with a narrow, but darker 

 margin ; wing and tail-feathers black ; legs, toes, and 

 their membranes black. The whole length of the male 

 twenty-seven inches ; of the wing from the wrist ten 

 inches and three-quarters. 



Young birds have the upper plumage brown, tinted 

 with green ; the under surface brownish-ash, mingled with 

 white. 



