SHAG PELECAN AND CORVORANT.v 5^1 



pyH. Orn. 330 — Pelecaaus Graculus, Faun. Suec. N" i^6..'-Lai&am, Vii. 508. Sha€» 



—Lev Mus. 



T> With head and neck black, glofTed like filk with green : the 

 back and coverts of wings of the fame color, edged with pur- 

 plifh black : belly dufky and dull ; the middle cinereous: tail con- 

 fifts of twelve featliers, dufky, gloffed with green : legs black": mid- 

 dle claw ferrated. Length two feet fix. Extent three feet eight,. 

 Weight four pounds. 



Frequent in many parts of Greai Britain. Found ia Sweden, Nor- Place. 



wrzy, and Iceland'. ^ . 



Br. Zool. N" 293.1— Pekcan US Carvo, HafFs-tjader, Faim^ Suec. N'' 145. — 509. Corvorakt^ 

 LathamyWi. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus-. 



■p With a narrow bill, hooked at the end : a fmall dilatable pouclr '• 



under the chin ; feathers at its bafe white, in the male : head 

 and neck of a foory blacknefs, fometimes ftreaked with white : co- 

 verts of v.'ings, back, and fcapulars, deep green,, edged with blackj,. 

 gloffed with blue : breaft and belly black : on the thighs of the male 

 a. tuft of white : tail confiflrs of fourteen feathers, and is rounded. 

 Weight feven pounds. Length three feet four. Extent four- 

 feet two. 



Extends over all parts of the northern hemifphere, evznto Green^ Plase. 



land, where it continues all the year. The natives ufe the jugular 

 pouch as a bladder to float their darts after they are flung. The fkins- 

 areufed in cloathing ; the flefh is eaten ; but the eggs- are fo fetid as- GREENLANOi- 

 to be rejefted, even by the very GreenlanderS:.- Thefe birds are taken 

 either by darts on the water; by fnares dropt down the precipices, 

 and placed before their haunts j or, in winter, they are taken while 

 afleep upon the ice. Are found iii all the temperate latitudes o£ 

 the Rujfian empire, and in immenfe numbers on the fhores of the Russian EwpiREi- 

 €afpan fea *. Reach even to Kamtfchatka. I believe this ta be the 



* ExtraSj i. 1644 — ii. 405.. 



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