6io 



SHAG. 



Class II. 



undelighted the beauties of Paradife: and Jit ds r ji- 

 Jing death on the tree of life *; 



Thefe birds have been trained to fifh like falcons 

 to fowl. Whitelock tells us, that he had a call of 

 them manned like hawks, and which would come 

 to hand. He took much pleafure in them, and re- 

 lates, that the bed he had was one prefented him by 

 Mr. Wood, Majier of the Cor v or ants to Charles I. 

 It is well known that the Chinefe make great vile of 

 thefe birds, or a congenerous fort, in filhing \ "and 

 that not for amufement, but profit f . 



292. Shag. Corvus aquaticus minor. Aldr. 

 a<v. III. IC9. 

 The Shag, called in the 

 North of England the Crane. 

 J I'zl. cm. 330. 

 Corvus aquaticus minor. 

 Graculus palmipes diclus. 

 Raii fyn. av. 123. 



Ls petit Cormoran. Brijjbn 



a-u. VI. 516. 

 Pelecanus graculus. Lin. Jyfi. 



217. 

 Phalacrocorax criftatus. Nor- 



<vegis Top Skarv. Brunnich 



ornith. 123. 

 Br. Zool. 159. 



*HpHE fhag is much inferior in fize to the corvo- 

 Descrip. A rant: the length is twenty-feven inches; the 

 breadth three feet fix: the weight three pounds 

 three quarters. The bill is four inches long, and 

 more flender than that of the preceding : the head 

 is adorned with a creli two inches long, pointing 



* Paradife Loft, Book IV. !. .194, &C 

 f Dubalde I. 316. 



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