GREEN COEMOEANT or SHAG. 



PHALdCROCORAX GRACULUS (Linn.). 



Pelecanus graculus, Linn. S. N. i. jj. 217 (1766). 



Halieiis graculus, Naum. xi. p. 88. 



Phalacrocorax graculus, Macg. v. p. 392; Yarr. ed. 4^, iv. 



p. 151 ; Dresser, vi. p. 163. 

 Plialacrocorax cristatus, Hewitson, ii. p. 473. 



Cormoran-largup, French ; Scharbe, German ; Cuervo 

 marino, Spanish. 



This species, although very locally distributed on our 

 British coasts, is exceedingly abundant in certain places ; 

 from my own experience I am disposed to look upon it 

 as a somewhat rare bird between the mouth of the 

 Humber and Torbay, becoming more frequent as we 

 proceed westward thence, and very common on the 

 south coast of Cornwall and in Scilly; I have also 

 seen it off the coast of Merioneth, and in great numbers 

 in the west and south-west of Ireland. I believe, 

 however, that it is more abundant on the rocky shores 

 of the islands of Scotland than elsewhere, and for a 

 graphic account of the ways and manners of the ' Scart,' 

 as this bird is there called, I cannot do better than refer 



