PELICAN. 419 



swimming ; they are also taken in snares and nets ; the skins are 

 used by them in clothing. The flesh is eaten ; but the eggs are 

 rejected, as being excessively fetid. Reach even to Kamtschatka ; 

 are found every where in the Russian dominions; on the shores of 

 the Caspian Sea, sometimes in immense flocks; frequent also on the 

 Lake Baikal ; common in India, China, the Philippine Isles, New 

 Zealand, and other parts ; not uncommon at the Cape of Good 

 Hope; are frequent in many parts of the Continent of America, at 

 Hudson's Bay, New York, and from thence as low at least as Caro- 

 lina; at the last seen especially in March and April, when the 

 herrings run up the creeks, at which time they may be observed 

 sitting on the logs of wood, which fall into the water, waiting for 

 the fish passing by;* are found also at Nootka Sound. f 



18.— JAVAN CORVORANT. 



Carbo Javanicus, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 197.— Horsfield. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill blackish, under mandible pale ; 

 body and wings black, with a hoary, silvery gloss, and the feathers 

 margined with black ; chin white ; neck beneath variegated with 

 black, brown, and fuliginous; thighs black; belly marked with 

 narrow cinereous bands. 



Inhabits Java, called there Pechuch. 



19.— SHAG. 



Pekcanus Graculus, Ind. Orn. ii. 887. Lin. i. 217. Fn. suec. No. 146. Gm, Lin. i. 

 574. Brun. No. 121. Muller, p. 147. Fn.Helv. Tern. Man. 590. Id. Ed. 2d. 897. 

 Phalacrocorax minor, Bris. vi. 516. Id. 8vo. ii. 496. Gerin. iv. t. 502. 

 Corvus aquaticus minor, Raii, 123. A. 4. Will. 249. t. 63. 

 Cormoran, Dod. Mem. iii. 213. f. 31. Pitfield Mem. pi. p. 132. 



'* Arct. ZoOl. Latoson'S Carolina. f Cook's last Voy. ii. 297. 



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