110 CRESTED TIT. 



CRESHAWK.— A name for the Kestril. 



CRESTED CORMORANT.— A name for the Crested Shag. 



CRESTED SHAG (Plialacrocorax cristatus, Cuvier.) 



* Pelecanus cristatus, Faun. Gronl. No. 58. — Brun. No. 123. — Carbo cristatus, 



Temm. 2. p. 900. — Procellaria cristatus, Mull. Zool. Dan. Prodr. No. 150.— 

 Crested Shag-, Perm. Arct. Zool. 583. A. — Mont. Diet, and Supp. — Flem. Br. 

 Anim. p. 118. 



Tail short, rounded, of twelve feathers ; length, from the tip of the 

 bill to the feathers on the front, two inches and a third. Length 

 twenty-eight ; breadth forty-two inches ; weight about four pounds ; 

 bill brown ; irides green ; feet black ; general plumage deep green, 

 with a tinge of bronze on the back and wings ; each feather with a dark 

 margin ; on the crown is a tuft of feathers, upwards of an inch long, 

 which it can erect with pleasure. Nape with a crest of ten or twelve 

 long subulate feathers, the wings reaching to the base of the tail. In 

 winter the coronal tuft disappears, Nest and eggs like the shag; 

 the young are distinguished by their slender bill and short tail. It was 

 erroneously supposed by Montagu to be only a variety of the common 

 shag, from each having twelve tail feathers. 



The Crested Shag has been considered as distinct by several of the 

 northern naturalists. Muller and Fabricius have described it ; and 

 Mr. Pennant first introduced it into the catalogue of British birds. 

 Fabricius has considered this bird, when destitute of the crest, as the 

 young of the cormorant. 



In Bullock's Museum there were two Crested Shags, said to be the 

 two sexes. An engraving of one was sent to us by Mr. Bullock, on 

 which was the following note : " Killed by me on the Bass Island, 9th 

 of May, 1807, a female, and breeding at the time." 



This bird had the feathers on the back of the head a little loose, 

 elongated, and pendant ; and on the crown was a tuft of erect feathers. 

 It had no white about the face, nor on the thigh, as in the crested 

 variety of the cormorant ; nor fourteen feathers in the tail, the leading 

 character of that bird in every variety.* 



CRESTED GREBE.— A name for the Gaunt. 



CRESTED TIT (Parus cristatus, Aldrovand.) 



* Parus cristatus, Linn. Syst. 1. p 340. 2. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 1005. — Raii, Syn. p. 



74. 6 — Will. p. 175. t. 43.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 567. sp. 14 Le Mesange 



buppe, Buff. Ois. 5. p. 447.— Ib. pi. Enl. 502. f. 2.— Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. 

 p. 290. — Haubenmcise, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 869. — Meyer, Tasschenb. 

 Deut. 1. p. 270 — Frisch, Vbg. t. 14. f. 1. B.— Crested Titmouse, Arct. Zool. 

 2. p. 427. F. — Will. ( Angl.) p. 242. t. 43.— Lath. Syn. 4. p. 545. 12.— Albin, 2. 

 t. 57.— Mont. Orn. Diet.— Ib. Supp.— Don. Br. Birds, 2. t. 26. — Wale. Syn. 2. 

 t. 250 Shaio's Zool. 10. p. 64.— Flem. Br. Anim Selby, pi. 43. fig. 6. p. 235.* 



The weight of this species is about two drams and a half ; length 



four inches and three quarters. The bill is dusky ; irides hazel ; fore- 



