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CRESTED TIT. 
CRESHAWK. — A name for the Kestril. 
CRESTED CORMORANT. — A name for the Crested Shag. 
CRESTED SHAG {PlialacrocoTaoc cristatus, Cuvier.) 
* Pelecanus chstatus, Faun. Gronl. No. 58. — Brun. No. 123. — Carbo cristatus, 
Temm. 2. p. 900. — Procellaria cristatus, MuU. Zool. Dan. Prodr. No. 150. — 
Crested Shag, Penn. 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 ; 
hill 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 he 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 naturahsts. 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 hack 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. — Paii, Syn. p. 
74. 6. — Will. p. 175. t. 43. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 567. sp. 14. — Le Mesange 
huppe. Buff. Ois. 5. p.447. — lb. pi. Enl. 502. f. 2. — Temm. Man. d’Orn. 1. 
p. 290. — Haubenmeise, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 869. — Meyer, Tasschenb. 
Deut. l.p. 270 — Frisch, Vbg. t. 14. f. 1. B. — Crested Titmouse, Arct. Zool. 
2. p. 427. F. — Will. (Angl.) p. 242. t. 43. — Lath. Sya. 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- 
