284. CRESTED CORVORANT. Class II. 



2. Crested. Pelecanus cristatus. P. corpore Faun. Groenl. No. 58. 5rM?r- 



viridi-nitentesubtusobscuro, 7iich, ornith. No. 123. 



rostro pedibusque obscuris. Shag. Brit. Zool. ii. 6iO. 



capite cristate. Laih. Ind. Crested Corvorant. Arct. Zool. 



cm. 888. id. Syn. vi. 600. ii. 312. 

 Gm. Lin. 575. 



TION. 



Descrip- X HE Crested is much inferior in size to the 

 common Corvorant : the length is twenty-seven 

 inches ; the breadth three feet six ; the weight 

 three pounds three quarters. The bill is nar- 

 row, dusky and hooked at the end ; the irides 

 fine green; the head is adorned with a crest 

 two inches long, pointing backward ; the whole 

 plumage of the upper part of this bird is of a 

 fine and very shining green, the edges of the 

 feathers a purplish black; but the lower part 

 of the back, the head, and neck, wholly 

 green; the belly is dusky; the tail consists 

 only of twelve feathers, of a dusky hue, tinged 

 Avith green ; the legs are black, and like those 

 of the corvorant. 



Both these kinds agree in their manners, 

 and breed in the same places : and, what is very 

 strange in webbed footed birds, will perch and 

 build on trees : both swim with their head quite 

 erect, and are very difficult to be shot ; for, like 

 the Grebes and Divers, as soon as they see the 



