284, 
CRESTED CORVORANT. Crass II. 
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2. CresteD. Pelecanuscristatus. P. corpore Faun. Groenl. No 58. . Brum 
Descrip- 
TION. 
Gm. Lin. 575. 
viridi-nitentesubtusobscuro, nich, ornith. No. 123. 
‘rostro pedibusque obscuris, Shag. Brit. Zool. ii. 610. 
capite cristato. Lath. Ind. Crested Corvorant. Arct.. Zool. 
orn. 888. id. Syn. vi. 600. Ti S12k 2s Wa 
Tue Crested is diner ‘gern in size to rie iy 
common Corvorant: the length is twenty- -seven | 
inches ; the breadth three feet six; the ae 
three Bots three quarters. The bill is nar- 
row, dusky and hooked at the end; the irides | 
fine green; the head is adorned with a crest 
two inches long, pointing backward; the whole 
plumage of the upper part of this bird is of a 
fine and very shining green, the edges of the. 
feathers a purplish Baek: but the lower part. 
of the back, the head, and neck, wholly 
green; the belly is dusky; the tail consists 
only of twelve feathers, of a dusky hue, tinged 
with green; the legs are black, and ia ‘those 
of the corvorant. We e 
Both these kinds agree in their manners, 
and breed in the same places: and, what is very 
strange in webbed footed birds, will perch and 
build on trees: both swimwith their head quite 

erect, and are very difficult to be shot ; for, like’ 
the Grebes and Divers, as soon as they see the 

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