PELICAN. 429 



The plumage in this is much the same, except that in the brown 

 parts the colour has universally the same shade, but inclining to 

 black ; round the eye the skin is bluish ; and the sides of the head, 

 as well as the under parts, white ; legs black. 



28.— CARUNCULATED SHAG. 



Pelecanus carunculatus, Ind. Om. ii. 889. Gm. Lin. i. 576. Forst. Voy. i. p. 41. 

 Carunculated Shag, Gen. Syn. vi. 603. 



ALMOST the size of the last. Bill dusky ; sides of the head 

 bare; between the bill and eye much carunculated and red; the 

 rest of the space round the eye ash-colour ; the orbits fine mazarine 

 blue, and elevated; over the eye a tubercle much larger than the 

 rest; irides whitish, or very pale brown ; the head somewhat flat on 

 the sides, and the crown rather full of feathers; top of the head and 

 sides of it, neck behind, and all the upper parts of the body, the 

 wings, and tail, black, except a longish patch of white on the wing 

 coverts; the forehead, chin, and all beneath, white; legs flesh- 

 colour, or very pale brown. 



Inhabits New Zealand; chiefly in Queen Charlotte's Sound, 

 though not in plenty; but met with by millions in Staaten Land; 

 and said by the voyagers to build in towns. By this is meant, when 

 they form themselves into societies, and take certain places to them- 

 selves. They make the nests near the edges of the cliffs, on the tops 

 of the tufts of grass;* which are flat and broad above, occasioned by 

 these birds building upon-them from year to year. 



* Dactylis glomerata, Lin.—- See Forst. Obs. i. p. 41. This grows frequently four 

 feet high, and is two or three times as much in breadth at top. The Penguins often take 

 shelter beneath it.— Id, Obs. p. 41. 



