OREEN CORMORANT.
CRESTED CORMORANT. SK ART. SCAR I-'. CR EST EI) SCARE. SI I AO .
SHAG CORMORANT. CRESTED SHAG. COMMON SHAG. GREEN SCOUT.
Pelecanus cristatus,
Pelecanus graculus,
Phalacrocorax cristatus,
PkatacrocoratB graculus,
Garbo cn'síatus,
PENNANT.
MONTAGU. BEWICK.
STEPHENS. FLEMING. SEXBY
JENYNS. GOULD.
STEPHENS. FLEMING.
TEMMINCK.
Pelecanus—A Pelican. Cristatus—Crested.
T H I S species is common on the northern shores of Europe, those
of Norway and Sweden, Lapland, Finland, Russia, Iceland, and the
Ferroe Isles, and is not unfrcquent about the islands of the .Mediterranean—
Corsica, Sardinia, and Cyprus; also in Asia, both on the
coasts and lakes of Siberia, and Kaintschatka; so too in America.
In the county of York a young bird of this kind was shot by the
keeper of Andrew Lawson, Esq., at Rawcliffe, near Boroughbride,
towards the end of October, 1848. They used to breed at Flamborough
Head—not so now. In Oxfordshire one was obtained on the
River Isis, near Oxford; and in Berkshire one near Pangbourne, in
September, 1794. In July, 1851, a pair of these birds, in immature
plumage, were killed at Burton Joyce, on the River Trent, six miles
from Nottingham, as Mr. John Felkin, Junior, informed me, and one
of them was obligingly presented to me by that gentlemen. A specimen
was shot near Oxford in the beginning of 1851.
In Surrey it has occurred near Godalming. In Hampshire, in Stokes
Bay, in the autumn of 1832. It is thought very rare at Yarmouth,
in Norfolk, and the specimens which occur are chiefly seen in the
autumn, and mostly immature. In Cornwall one, a young bird, was
shot near Pennance Point, Swanpool, Falmouth, in 1854. One killed