(02 PELICAN. 



tolerable, whether owing to the method of cooking or not is not 

 fo certain : their method is to roaft it in holes in the earth, 

 whole, without plucking off the feathers, or taking out the en- 

 trails, and after it is done enough they fkin and eat it. It is 

 faid to have no tongue j yet it is averred that it cries morning 

 and evening, not greatly unlike the blowing of a trumpet. By 

 fome this bird has been called the Sea Raven *. 



18. 



Description. 



Crefted Shag, Cook's lajl Voy. i. p. 15 1. 

 SPOTTED SH. Lev. Muf. 



Pl. CIV. 



CIZE of the Shag: length two feet, or more. Bill three inches 



long, of a pale blueilh lead-colour ; in fome yellow ; the tip 

 hooked : round the eyes bare, and of a dufky red : the chin, 

 throat, and fore part of the neck, are nearly black ; as are the 

 forehead, hind part of the neck, and beginning of the back : juft 

 over the forehead arife fome long feathers, forming a pointed 

 crefl: ; and at the hind part of the head a fecond, not unlike the 

 firft, but rather longer, fome of the feathers meafuring an inch 

 and a half: juft over the eye begins a line of white, which paries 

 down on each fide of the neck quite to the wing, and growing 

 broader as it proceeds downwards : the middle of the back, and 

 the wings, are of a brownifh aih-colour, each feather tipped at the 

 end with a round fpot of black, largeft on the wing coverts, but 

 no where bigger than a fmall pea : quills not fpotted : from the 

 middle of the back to the end of the tail, and from between the 

 legs to the vent, black gloried with green : tail three inches in 

 length, rounded at the end ; that and the quills plain black : legs 



* Rift, Kamtfcb. 



8 deep 



