CoRMORANT. NATAT. PHALACROCORAX. 451 
Shag or Crane, Will. (Angl.) 330. pl. 62.—Penn. Br. Zool, 2. 610. No. 292. 
pl. 182.—Arct. Zool. 2. 508.—Lath. Syn. 6. 598.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 7. 
264.— Mont. Orn. Dict. & Sup.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 337. 
Crested Shag, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 585.--Lath. Syn. 6. 600.—Mont. Orn. 
Dict. and Sup.—Flem. Br. Anim. 118. No. 117. 
Shag Cormorant, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 13. 82. 
Crested Cormorant, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 13. 83. 
Provinci1at—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 
Temmincx’s Carbo Graculus. This he considers identical 
with the Pelecanus Graculus of Linnxus and Latuam, 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 TEmMMINcK as distinctive charac- 
ters of his Carbo Graculus, which bird appears to resemble 
the Common Cormorant in every respect, but that of inferion 
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 FLemtne, 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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