GREEN CORMORANT oe SHAG.
PHALACROCORAX GRACULTJS (Linn.).
Pelecanus graculus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 217 (1766).
Halieus graculus, Naum. xi. p. 88.
Phalacrocorax graculus, Macg. v. p. 392; Yarr. ed. 4, iv.
p. 151; Dresser, Vi. p. 163.
Phalacrocorax cristatus, Hewitson, ii. p. 473.
Cormoran-largup, French; Scharbe, G-erman; Cuervo
marino, Spanish.
This species, although very locally distributed on our
British coasts, is exceedingly abundant in certain places;
from my own experience I am disposed to look upon it
as a somewhat rare bird between the mouth of the
Humber and Torbay, becoming more frequent as we
proceed westward thence, and very common on the
south coast of Cornwall and in Scilly; I have also
seen it off the coast of Merioneth, and in great numbers
in the west and south-west of Ireland. I believe,
however, that it is more abundant on the rocky shores
of the islands of Scotland than elsewhere, and for a
graphic account of the ways and manners of the ‘ Scart,’
as this bird is there called, I cannot do better than refer