46 THE NATURAL HISTORY | 
The Shag is another bird of the Pelican kind, 
finaller than the Cormorant. Its bill is toothed 
-on the edges, on each fide, like a faw3 it has .a 
ereft two inches long, and all the-feathers of the — 
‘upper part of its body are of a bright green, edged 
swith a purple caft. 
Shags build, like the Goemarant.ia on trees, and — 

can perch upon them; they fwim with the head — 
- -becaufe they. dre under water upon feeing the 
| quite upright, and are very difficult to be fhot, — 
flafh of the gun. Shags are found-on the coaft 
-of Cornwal, and near-the Ifle of Man, and:on the 
coat 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. nefits on the cliffs which jut. out 
over the fea, or amongit 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 farfrom 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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