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23— BROWN-NECKED SHAG. 



THIS is in shape much like the Shag ; length twenty one inches 

 and a half. Bill nearly three inches, cinereous, the under mandible 

 naked to the base ; orbits naked, brown ; irides very dark ; front 

 and lore black, marked with white irregular spots ; the feathers of 

 the front erect, and form a kind of short crest ; crown and upper 

 part of the neck black, mixed with brown, sides of the neck rufous 

 brown; the rest of the plumage black, with a degree of gloss; 

 scapulars and upper wing coverts sharp-pointed ; tail five inches and 

 a half in length, rounded at the end, and consisting of twelve 

 feathers, and the wings reach to the beginning of it; legs black. 



Inhabits Bengal, where it is not uncommon, is called there Pan 

 Cowree; by the Mussulmans, Ponkoul ; is seen swimming all the 

 day on the water, and roosts at night on the trees. 



I am indebted for this account to Dr. Buchanan. 



In General Hardwicke's drawings is a Shag called Pawnkole. 

 This has a black bill, with a white tip ; plumage black, and glossy ; 

 lore spotted whitish, also a small space on the crown, and the whole 

 of the nape the same ; the sides of the neck are of the same colour 

 as the rest of the plumage, not rufous brown. 



24.— VIOLET SHAG. 



Pelecanus violaceus, Jnd. Orn. ii. 888, Gm. Lin. i. 575. 

 Violet Corvorant, Gen. Syn. vi. 600. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 581. B. 



SIZE uncertain. Plumage wholly black, glossed with violet. 

 Found about Kamtschatka and the Isles. One greatly similar was 

 in the Leverian Museum, the colour of the plumage as here de- 

 scribed, and carrying a most splendid gloss, but the top 6f the head 

 furnished with a long, pointed crest, standing upright ; the bill pale, 

 with a dusky tip; legs dusky black. 



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