SU' VIOLET AND RED-FACED CORVORANT. 



but in the latter is fcarce. The places which it inhabits are covered 

 . -with its filthy excrements. The Greenlanders therefore call it Ting- 

 fningkfot, or the bird affliSied -with a loojenefs. It differs 'fronn the 

 Shag in having a creft, and in being lefler. The Norwegians are well 

 acquainted with both fpecies, and diftinguifli them by different 

 na.mes *. I have feen feveral of the Shags fhot among the HebrideSy 

 but not one was crefted. On the authority of the northern natura- 

 lills, I therefore feparate them, . - - 



Bi Violet CoRvoRANT. PelecanusVioIaceus, Pallas MS. iz/f. — Latham, \\u 



■p With the body wholly black, gloffed with violet colon 



'lace. * Pound about ifi3»«£/f^«/^<2 and the iiles. 



^. Red-faced CoBvOR ANT. Ouril of the Kamtfchatkans, Defer, de la Kamtfchatka-i 

 ^g^.'*— Latham, iiii 



P With a flender bill ; upper mandible black ; lower red : from 



the bill to the eyes^ is a fpace covered witli a blueifli red naked 



fkin : round each eye a white cutaneous circle: head crefted: head, 



fieckj and middle of the back, of a deep glofTy green : on the 



fore part of the neck a few white flender feathers : fides of the 



back and fcapulars glolTed with purple : wings dufky : belly 



gloffed with green : tail, confifting of twelve feathers only, is 



duflcy : over each thigh is a tuft of white feathers : legs black. 



Length of one I meafured thirty-one inches. Stelkr compares its 



fize to that of a Goofco 



gLAcE, Inhabits the high precipices on the coafts oiKamtJchatka. Is 



very flow in rifing ; but when on wing, flies moft rapidly. Feeds 



on fifh. During night they lit in rows on j;he cliffs, and often in 



their fleep fall off, and become the prey o( Ar£ik Foxes j who lie in 



• BrunnUh, N» i2i, 123. 



2 wait 



