46 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The Shag is another bird of the Pelican kind, 
{maller than the Cormorant. Its bill is toothed 
on the edges, on each fide, like a faw; ithas a 
creft two inches long, and all the feathers of the 
‘upper part of its body are of a bright green, edged 
with a purple caft. | 
Shags build, like the Cormorant, on trees, and 
can perch upon them; they fwim with the head 
quite upright, and are very difficult to be fhot, 
becaufe they dive under water upon feeing the 
flath of the gun. Shags are found on the coaft 
of Cornwal, and near the Ifle of Man, and on the 
coaft of Pruffias Mr. Forfter (who went round 
the world with Captain Cook) found them in the 
cold iflands in the fouth. In thefe frozen climes 
they make their nefts on the cliffs which jut out 
over the fea, or amonegft the tufts of that long 
grafs, which is almoft the only plant that grows 
there; and having never been difturbed by men, 
they did not fly away when a gun was fired; they 
were fo fat from being afraid, that they fuffered 
themfelves to be beaten down with fticks. | 
The Gannet, or Soland Goofe, is another bird 
of this kind. It is as large asa Goofe ; the fides 
of its beak are jagged, that it may hold the fith 
the better; it has no noftrils, unlefs they be placed 
in a long furrow, which reaches almoft to the end 
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