PELICAN. 601 



Red-faced Corvorant, Arli. Zool. p. 584. C. 17. 



Urile, Hifi. Kamtfcb. p. i S7 . RED-FACED SH. 



HP HIS is fomewhat lefs than the Corvorant: length two feet Desciiption. 



ten inches. Bill three inches and a half long ; the bafe of a 

 reddifh green, the end black : round the eye a bare fkin of a 

 reddifh colour: head and neck dark blackifh green j on the mid- 

 dle of the neck before a few {lender white narrow feathers, thinly 

 interfperfed among the others, many of them two inches and a 

 half in length : back and wings dufky black, but gloffy j the 

 back has alfo a glofs of green in fome lights, with here and there 

 a white flender feather : the belly is wholly black : on each fide 

 of the rump a large patch of white feathers: tail fix inches in 

 length, confiding of twelve feathers : colour of the quills black : 

 legs black. 



Inhabits Kamtfchatka, chiefly about the rocky and craggy Place and 

 places on the fea coafts, in which places it builds the neft in 

 June. The eggs are the fize of a Hen's, of a green colour, and 

 very ill-tafted j notwithstanding which the natives think it 

 worth while to climb the rocks for them at the hazard of 

 their lives. Like others of the genus it feeds on fijh, fwallowing 

 them whole. Flies well and fwiftly; but rifes with difficulty 

 from the ground. While fitting on the rocks faid to be very 

 ftupid, and not eafily roufed ; hence the natives catch them eafily, 

 by means of nets thrown over them, or noofes at the end of long 

 poles ; and not unfrequently thefe filly birds fuffer themfelves to be 

 taken one after another to the very laft. As a food, every one 

 but a Kamtfcbadale muft abhor it, yet this nation think it very 



Vol. III. 4 H tolerable, 



Manners. 



