595 PELICAN. 



the feat of Sir James Graham. A perfon who faw them fettle, fired 

 at random at them in the dark fix or feven times, without either 

 killing any, or frightening them away ; furprifed at this, he came 

 again at day-light, and killed one of them, when the reft took 

 wing*. It moftly frequents the neighbourhood of the fea 3 for 

 the fake of fifhing, which it does by diving after its prey; 

 and is obferved now and then to take the fifo out of the bill 

 with the claws, in order to affift its flight. The 'fkin is very 

 tough, and is ufed by the Greenlanders for garments , they alfo 

 ■fomecimes eat the flefh ; and the fkin of the jaws, like others of 

 this clafs, ferves them for bladders to buoy up their fmaller kinds 

 ofjijhing darts. 



j. Pelecanus graculus, Lin. Sjjl. i. p. 217. 4. — Faun. Suec. N° 146.— Brim. 



+. COMMON N° 121.— Mutter, N° 147. 



SHAU. , £ e p et j t Cormoran, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 516. 2. 



— — — — — ou le Nigaud, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 319. 



Shagge, or Crane, Raii Syn. p. 123. A. 4. — Will. Orn. p. 330. pi. 63. 

 The Shag, ArB. Zool. N° 508. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. F EN G TIT two feet fix inches: extent three feet eight: 

 weight four pounds. Head and neck black, gloried like 

 filk with green : the back and coverts of the wings of the fame 

 colour, edged with purplifh black : belly dufky and dull ; the 

 middle cinereous : tail confifting of twelve feathers, dufky gloried 

 with green : legs black : middle claw ferrated. 

 Place and Shags frequent feveral parts of Great Britain and Ireland; alfo 



Sweden, Norway, and Iceland ; and are faid to build in trees, in 



* Dr. Heyjbam. 



3 the 



