PHALACKOCOEAX. — SULA. 155 



Phalacrocorax graculus. Shag. 



Pelecanus graculus Linnwus, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 1766, 

 p. 217 : Sweden. 



Phalacrocorax graculus (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, 

 p. 106 ; Ogilvie- Grant, Gat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 1898, p. 364 ; 

 Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 363. 



Grdculus=a, Jackdaw, in classical Latin, akin to garrio = I chatter, gaUus= 

 a cock, etc. It was called " graculus palmipes" by the old writers. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Resident, common 

 round our western shores, but less so on the south coast o£ 

 England, east of the Isle of TVight, and on the east coast, 

 except towards the north of Scotland. Very numerous in 

 the Orkney and Shetland Islands, in the Outer Hebrides, and 

 down the whole of the west coast of Great Britain. In 

 Ireland it is common, and breeds all round the coasts. 

 It rarely frequents inland waters. 



General Distribution. — Tlie Shag inhabits Iceland, the 

 Faeroes, and tlie coasts of western Europe from Norway to 

 Portugal. It is represented in the Mediterranean, Black, and 

 Caspian seas by a closely allied form, P. g. desmaresti. 



Family SULIDiE. 



Genus SULA Brisson, Orn. vi. 17G0, p. 494. 

 Type : S. leucogastra (Bodd.). 



Sm!o, latinized from the Norse Bule (Briimuch, Orn. Bor. 1764, p. 31), which 

 is said to mean an awkward fellow, a dolt. 



Sula bassana. Gannet. 



Pelecanus bassanus Linnwus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 133 : 



Scotland. 



Sula bassana {Linn.) ; B. O. IT. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 106 ; 

 Ogilvie- Grant, Gat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 1898, p. 425; 

 Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 365. 



Bassana = of the Bass Book in the Firth of Forth, because it was supposed 

 to breed nowhere else. 



