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PELICAN. 



name of Shag Island. Shags, too, are by no means rare about 

 Paraguay, or on the River Plata ; oftener indeed single, or in pairs, 

 than in large flocks, though sometimes as many as one hundred are 

 seen together. 



The bird quoted from Azara, by the name of Zaramagullon, is 

 probably a Shag, from having only twelve feathers in the tail. 



A — Le petit Fou brun de Cayenne, Buf. viii. 374. PI. enl. 974. Ind. Orn. ii. S88. 



This is twenty-six inches long. Bill pale ; plumage dusky, 

 brown beneath; on the upper parts the feathers margined with black; 

 legs dusky. — Inhabits Cayenne, and the Caribbee Islands : probably 

 a young bird. 



20— AFRICAN SHAG. 



Pelecanus Africanus, Ind. Orn. ii. 890. Gm. Lin. i. 577. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 590. 



Id. Ed. 2d. 899. 

 Pelecanus Capensis, Mus. Carls, pi. 61. 

 African Shag, Gen. Syn. vi. 606. 



SIZE of a Teal ; length twenty inches. Bill dirty yellowish 

 white, upper mandible brown black ; middle of the back and rump 

 glossy black ; scapulars and wing coverts blue grey, each feather 

 margined and tipped with black ; the three first greater quills pale 

 brown, inclining to cinnamon, the rest brown black ; secondaries 

 as long as the quills, dusky black, edged with brown ; in the tail 

 twelve feathers, cuneiform, the two middle seven inches long, the 

 outmost three inches and an half, the four middle ones and outer on 

 each side pale brown, the others black ; chin white ; fore part of the 

 neck mottled dusky white and black ; belly much the same, with a 

 mixture of brown ; legs black. 



Inhabits Africa. This seems allied to the common Shag. M. 

 Temminck supposes it to be in its first year's plumage. 



