PELECANUS LOPHURUS. 
TUFTED S HAG. 
Generic Character, See Pelecanus Carbo, 
Synonyms, 
Tufted Shag of the Bass. Bullock's Catalogue to 
the London Mufemn^ p. 68, 81^^?. ed, 
TPh I S fpecies correfponds in fize with the common fhag, 
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 eredable 
^t pleafure ; the pouch is fmall and minutely fpeckled with 
black ; tail compofed of twelve ftiff round pointed feathers ; 
legs flerfder. The fpecimen from which our figure was taken 
" was fhot 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 fhot by hini 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 polTelTes confiderable knowledge 
of the birds that vifit it, there can be but little doubt of its 
feeing a new fpecies, and of its rearing its young in the inac- 
ceffible 
