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" This bird" (says Montagu) " is in 
every respect like the common Shag, but 
that the feathers on the back of the head 
are a little loose, elongated and pendant. 
It has no white about the face, nor on the 
thighs, as in the crested variety of the 
Corvorant ; nor fourteen feathers in the tail, 
the leading character of that bird in 
every variety. Under all these circum- 
stances, whatever may be the existing 
cause of such occasional luxuriance of 
growth in the feathers of the head, not a 
doubt exists of the crested, and common 
Shag, being of the same species, and 
should have the whole of their synonyms 
united." 
" It should seem the Shag is subject to 
vary in the form of their occasional crest 
for we are told by some, that the crest is 
constitued by a long tuft of dusky feathers 
on each side of the head reaching beyond 
the crown." 
Mr. B. gives (in his catalogue to the 
Musuem) the following account t)f the 
Tufted Shag :— " Two of these birds, both 
females, were shot by myself on the 9th of 
