GANNET CORVORANT. Class II. 



I have seen several of the Shags shot among 

 the Hebrides, but not one was crested. On the 

 authority of the northern naturalists I therefore 

 separate them. 



4. Gannet. Pelecanus Bassanus. P. cauda 

 cuneiformi, corpore albo, 

 rostro serrato, remigibus pri- 

 moribus nigris, facie caerulea. 

 Lath. Ind. orn. 8gi. id. 

 Syn. vi. 608. id. Sup. ii. 

 365, 



Anser Bassanus sive Scoticus. 

 Gesner av. l63. 



Aldr. av. 68. 



Sula. Hoieri Clus. ex. 367- 



Hector Boeth. 6. 



Soland Goose. Wil. orn. 328. 



Rail Syn. av. 122. 



Itin. igi. 269.279. 



Silh. hist. Scot. 20. tal\ Q. 



Silb. hist. Fife. 45. 47. 



Jaen van Gent. Martin's Spitz- 



lerg. 97. 

 Solan Goose. Martins voy. 



St. Kilda. 27. 

 Descript. West. Isles. 281. 

 Macauly's hist. St. Kilda. 133. 

 Sula Bassana, le Fou de Bas- 



san. Brisson av. vi. 503. 



tal. 44. Hist, d'ois. viii. 



376. PL Enl. 278. 

 Pelecanus Bassanus. Gm. Lin. 



577. 

 NorvegisSule, Hav-Sul. BruU' 



nich, 124. 

 Br. Zool. 160. Arct. Zool ii, 



310. 



Descrip- XHIS Species weighs seven pounds: the lenj^fth 



TION. . . , 



is three feet one inch ; the breadth six feet two 

 inches. The bill is six inches long, strait almost 

 to the point, where it inclines downwards, and 

 the sides are irregularly jagged, that it may hold 

 its prey with more security ; about an inch 



the Corvorant by their inferior w^eight, and the number of fea- 

 thers in the tail ; he adds that they breed on our rocky coasts, 

 and are never known to visit fresh-water rivers, or perch oa 

 trees. Ed. 



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