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PELICAN. 



15. 



CRESTED SH. 



Djscription. 



Place. 



Pelecanus criftatm, Faun. Groenl. N" 58. — Brim. 123. 

 Crefted Shag, Ara. Zool. N" 583. A. — Br. Zool. ii. p. 292. pi. 102. 



Lev. Muf. 



COME WHAT fmaller than the laft ; length two feet three 

 inches : breadth three feet fix : weight three pounds and 

 three quarters. The bill is four inches long, narrow, dufky, 

 and hooked at the end : irides fine green : on each fide the head 

 a long tuft of dufky feathers reaching beyond the crown, form- 

 ing a fine creft. : the head, neck, and lower part of the back, fine 

 gloffy green : the upper part of the back and wing coverts the 

 fame, edged with purplifh black : belly dufky : tail of a dufky 

 green, confifling of twelve feathers : legs dufky black. 



This inhabits Great Britain, and the vaft precipices about 

 Holyhead; alfo Norway, Iceland, and Greenland; but in the latter 

 not very common. Mr. Pennant obferves, that he met with feve- 

 ral Shags in the Hebrides, but faw none with the creft ; hence 

 we may fuppofe it to be fomewhat rare. 



16. 

 VIOLET SH. 



Description. 

 Place. 



Violet Corvorant, ArQ. Zool- p. 584. B. 



'"PHIS bird is faid to be wholly black, glofTed with violet. 

 The fize not mentioned. 

 Found about Kamtfchatka and the ifies. One greatly fimilar to 

 this is in the Leverian Mufeum : the colour of plumage, and fize, 

 as above-mentioned ; but the top of the head is furnifhed with a 

 long pointed creft, Handing upright. 



Red-faced 



