PELFCAtf. 423 



21 —CRESTED SHAG. 



Pelecanus cristatus, Ind. Om. ii. 888. Gm. Lin. i. 575. Fn. groenl. No. 58. Brun. 



No 123. Strom. Sbndm, 250. Olaff. ii. t. 39. Muller, No. 150. 

 Crested Shag, Gen. Syn. vi. 600. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 284. pi. 47. Id.Jbl. 159. 



Arct. Zool. 583. A. Om. Diet. Sf Supp. 



THIS is a trifle smaller than the last. Bill four inches long, 

 narrow, dusky, and hooked at the end ; irides fine green ; on each 

 side of the head a long tuft of dusky feathers, reaching beyond the 

 crown, forming a fine crest ; head, neck, and lower part of the back, 

 fine glossy green ; the upper parts of the back and wing coverts the 

 same, edged with purplish black; belly dusky; tail dusky green, 

 consisting of twelve feathers; legs dusky black. 



This inhabits Great Britain, and the vast precipices about Holy- 

 head ; and Mr. Pennant observes, that he met with several in the 

 Hebrides, but saw none with the crest; is found in Norway, Iceland, 

 and Greenland, but is rare at the last, and only found in the southern 

 parts. It is allowed on all hands to be rare, but whether distinct in 

 species, or only a Variety, is uncertain.* 



I observe among the drawings of Sir J. Anstruther one appearing 

 as the common Shag, under the name of Gyar, in the Bengalese 

 tongue, and Banwar, in that of Hindustan. The Darter seems also 

 to pass under the same names. 



22 —CHINESE SHAG. 



Pelecanus Sinensis, Ind. Om. Sup. p. lxx. 



Leu-tze, Embassy to China, ii. 388. pi. 37. Id. 389. pi. at the bottom. 



Loofoo, Du Hold. China, ii. 142. pi. in p. 162. Osbeck Voy.W. 35. 



* In the Supplement to the Ornithological Dictionary, it is said that this bird is no other 

 than a Variety of the Common Shag, differing therefrom in the same manner as the Crested 

 Corvorant does from the Common Sort, but of this we cannot of our own experience give 

 an opinion. 



