47* S H A G. ClafsII. 



II. The S H A G. 



Corvus aquaticus minor. Aldr. Le petit Cormoran. Brijfon a<v. 



a<v. iii. 109. vi. 5 16. 



The Shag, called in the North of Pelecanus graculus. Lin. Jyft, 



England the Crane. WiL orn. 217. 



330. Phalacrocorax criftatus. Norvegis 



Corvus aquaticus minor. Gracu- Top-Skarv. Brunnicb ornitb, 



lus palmipes diclus. Raii/yn. 123. 



av. 123. Br. Zoo/. 159. 



Pefcr. HP -B E fhag is much inferior in fize to the cor- 

 - vorant : the length is twenty-feven inches ; the 

 breadth three feet fix. The bill is four inches long, 

 and more (lender than that of the preceding: the 

 head is adorned with a creft two inches long, pointing 

 backward : the whole plumage of the upper part of 

 this bird is of a fine and very mining green, the edges 

 of the feathers a purplifh black ; but the lower part 

 of the back is wholly green : the belly is dufky : the 

 tail con fills of only twelve feathers, of a dusky hue, 

 tinged with green y the legs are black, and like thofe 

 of the corvorant. Both thefe fpecies agree in their 

 manners, and breed in the fame places : and, what 

 is very (trange in webbed-footed birds, will perch 

 and build in trees, both fwim with their head quite 

 erect, and are very difficult to be (hot ; for, like the 

 Grebes and Divers, as foon as they fee the flam of the 

 gun pan, they pop under water, and never rife but 

 at a considerable diftance. 



We are indebted for this bird to the late Mr. 

 William Morris of Holyhead, with whom we had a con- 

 ftant correfponcknee for feveral years, receiving from 



that 



