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skin, and eat it. It is said to have no tongue ; yet it is averred, that 

 it cries morning and evening, not greatly unlike the blowing of a 

 trumpet. By some this bird is called the Sea Raven. 



26 —SPOTTED SHAG— Pl. clxxxh. 



Pelecanus punctatus, Ind. Orn. ii. 889. Gm. Lin. i. 574. Mus. Carls, i. t. 10. 

 ' naevius, Gm. Lin. i. 575. 



Crested Shag, Cook's last Voy. i. 151. 

 Spotted Shag, Gen. Syn. vi. 602. pl. civ. 



SIZE of the Shag; length two feet. Bill three inches long, 

 pale bluish lead colour, in some yellow, the tip hooked ; round the 

 eyes bare and dusky red ; the chin, throat, and forepart of the neck 

 nearly black, also the forehead, neck behind, and beginning of 

 the back ; just over the forehead some long feathers, forming a 

 pointed crest, and at the hind part a second, not unlike the first, 

 but rather longer, some of the feathers being one inch and half in 

 length ; just over the eye begins a streak of white, passing down on 

 each side of the neck quite to the wing, growing broader as it pro- 

 ceeds downwards ; the middle of the back and wings brownish ash 

 colour, each feather marked at the end with a round spot of black, 

 largest on the wing coverts, but no where bigger than a small pea ; 

 quills not spotted ; from the middle of the back to the end of the 

 tail, and from between the legs to the vent, black, glossed with 

 green ; tail three inches long, rounded at the end, or very slightly 

 cuneiform ; that and the quills plain black ; legs deep brown, or 

 black. 



In some specimens the bill is reddish, and the legs dull yellow ; 



the chin white, covered with feathers, and without any crest ; the 

 feathers of the sides, near the vent, streaked with white ; thighs 

 black ; the stripe on the sides of the neck less distinct, and the black 

 on the neck less pure. This is probably a female, or young bird. 



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