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the colour, sooty black ; the pouch or gullet, bright 

 scarlet. Perhaps none of the feathered tribe con- 

 tinue so much on the wing as this ; they are met 

 with at sea, at an immense distance from any land, 

 and generally flying very high. 



Red-faced Shag (Pellicanus Uriel), from Kanit§- 

 chatka. 



Corvorant (Pellicanus Carbo). 



Shag (Pellicanus Graculus). 



Tufted Shag of the Bass Island. 



Two of these birds, both females, were shot by 

 myself on the 9th of May, 1807, on the Bass Island, 

 in the Frith of Forth, where they are believed to breed 

 and remain the whole year ; the general appearance, 

 both in size and colour, was nearly similar to the 

 common Shag, and the number of tail feathers the 

 same ; the most striking difference arises from a sin- 

 gular tuft of forty-six narrow and nearly straight 

 feathers, two inches long, standing close together up- 

 right, with a slight bend forward on the front of the 

 forehead, in so remarkable a way as at once to dis- 

 tinguish it from any described species. The origin 

 of the lower mandible, and the naked pouch under 

 the throat, was of a bright yellow, approaching to 

 orange, with small spots of black ; the i rides, a beau- 

 tiful grass green, and it had no bare space round the 

 eyes; the ovaries of both specimens contained a num- 

 ber of small eggs, and from the account of the person 

 who takes the young Gannets at the Bass, and who 

 possesses considerable knowledge of the birds that 

 visit it, there can be little doubt of its being a new 

 species, and of its rearing its young in the inaccessible 

 precipices of that island ; and it is somewhat sur- 

 prising that it should have remained so long unnoticed 



