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In the present uncertain, and I may say unsatisfactory way of 

 determining species, it would, I think, be premature to call this bird 

 anything more than a local variety of the Common Shag. This is 

 also the opinion expressed to me in a private letter by M. De Selys- 

 Longchamps. It is made a variety also by Blasius, in his " Verzeichniss 

 der Yogel Europa's/' published in 1861. 



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