CRESTED C O R V O R A N T. 



particularly, in numbers about New Zealand and New Holland*. 

 Captain Cook alfo faw them in his paffage from England to the Cape of 

 Good Hijpe -f, and remoter from land than they had been feen elfe- 

 where. Among thofe obferved in the South Sea, is the variety called 

 Sula^, with a few black feathers in the tail and among the fecon- 

 daries. Found not only on the Feroe iflands, but on our coafts, one 

 having been brought to me a few years ago, which had fallen down 

 wearied, with its flight. A moft ample account of the manners of the 

 Gajjnet is given in the Br, Zool. 



A^2 



Crested Corvorant. Shag, Sr. Zool, ii. N° 292. — Latham, iJL- 

 Pelecanus Criftatus. To'^-^s.Wc'.Erunmch, N° 123. — Faun. Groml,N' 5,8. — Lev. Mus,- 

 — Bl. Mus. 



T) With a narrow dufky bill, hooked at the end : irides fine 

 green : on each fide of the head is a long tuft of dufky fea- 

 thers reaching beyond the crown : head, neck, and lower part of 

 the back,, of a fine and glolTy green : the upper part of the back, and 

 eoverts of the wings^ of the fame color, edged with purplifh black : 

 belly dufky : tail confifts of twelve feathers, dufky tinged with 

 green. Length two feet three. Extent three feet fix. Weight 

 three pounds three quarters. 



Inhabits, in Great Britain, the vaft precipices about Holyhead; Piacb, 



and is found in Norway, Iceland^, and in the fouth of Greenland % ; 



* Cook's Fir ft Voy> ii. 382,— iii. 439, 627. \ Cook's Voy, tsisiards the South 



Pole, i. 10, II. \Wil. Orn, 331. U Olaffen, ii. tab, xxxix. ^T Fmn. 



Groenl. N" 58. 



but 



