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rock, fuitable to their purpofe, of themfelves, or at leaft enlarg- 

 ing the natural cavities fo much, in the rock which is not of the 

 hardeft fort, as to make room for their offspring in them. Shags, 

 both in this as well .other places unfrequented by man, are fo 

 tame as to be very little frightened at the report of a gun; for, 

 on being fired at, though they were at firfl difturbed, they imme- 

 diately returned to the neft, fo as to make it a matter of no great 

 difficulty to fhoot them on the wing, as they moftly flew but 

 heavily *. 



Lev. Muf. 21. 



PIED SH. 



ENGTH two feet fix inches. Bill four inches and a half, Description. 

 formed as in the Shag ; the top of it dufky ; the reft of it, 

 and bare_ fpace about the eye, yellow : over the eyes a narrow 

 ftreak of a pale colour : the top of the head, hind part of the 

 neck, back, wings, and tail, are brown ; the middle of the back, 

 and wing coverts, paleft ; the margins of the laft almoft white, or 

 very pale : the lower part of the back, rump, and thighs, very 

 deep brown, nearly black : quills black ; fome of thofe neareft 

 the body have pale tips : tail brown black, rounded in fhape, and 

 fix inches or more in length ; the outer margins and fhafrs white : 

 the under parts, from the chin to the vent, wholly white : legs- 

 ftefh-colour : claws dufky. 



The above defcription is taken from a fpecimen in the Leverian 

 Mufeum ; fimilar to which I obferve one among the drawings of 

 Sir Jqfeph Banks. This differed in a few particulars : — the plu- 

 mage much the fame, except that in the brown parts the colour 



* Forfi Foy. ii. p, 494, 495. 



was- 



