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The form, the aspect altogether, the 
outward conformation of all the parts, 
the character, manners and habits, and 
the places of abode, of this species, are 
nearly like those of the Oorvorant, but 
they do not associate with those birds. 
Montagu counted no less than thirty 
Shags' nests on a small rock a little de- 
tached trom the shore, from which he took 
some eggs and young birds. 
This spceies is never known to visit our 
fresh water rivers, which the Corvorant 
frequently will, and on some places make 
their nests in trees on which they frequenty 
perch by the sides of rivers. The Shag 
keeps wholly to the salt-water, and breeds 
on our rocky coasts. 
In winter both sexes have the head, 
throat, neck, back, and all the under 
parts of a dull greenish black; upon the 
^neck a few almost imperceptible white 
specks; feathers of the top of the back and 
of the wings deep ash-colour in the middle, 
bordered by a broad band of deep black; 
naked space round the eyes and the little 
guttural pouch of a reddish yellow ; beak 
