PELECANUS LOPHURUS. 



TUFTED SHAG, 



Generic Character. See Pelecanus Carbo. 

 Synonyms. 



Tufted Shag of the Bass. Bullock's Catalogue io 

 the London Mufeum^ p. 68, Zvo, ed. 



TTh I S fpecies correfponds in fize with the common fiiag, 

 but differs confiderably in elegance of form. Bill three inches 

 long, flender ; irides bright green ; crown of the head orna- 

 mented with a tuft of forty-fix narrow feathers, which have 

 a flight inclination forward, thefe do not appear to be ereaable 

 at pleafure ; the pouch is fmall and minutely fpeckled with 



black ; tail compofed of twelve ftiff round pointed feathers ; 



legs flender. The fpecimen fronv which our figure was taken 

 was ftiot on the Bafs ifland in the Frith of Forth, where 



they are fuppofed to breed and remain all the year." 



Mr. Bullock mentions that " two of thefe birds, both 

 females, were fliot by him on the 9th of May 1807 ; the 

 ovaries of both fpecimens contained a number of fmall eggs, 

 and from the account of the perfon who takes the young 

 Gannets at the Bafs, and who poflefles confiderable knowledge 

 of the birds that vifit it, there can be but little doubt of its 

 being a new fpecies, and of its rearing its young in the inac- 



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