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P E L I C A N ,
Pelecanus criftatus, Faun* Groenl. N° 58.— Brun. 123.
Crefted Shag, ArS. Zool. N* 583- A.— Br. Zool. ii. p. 29a. pi. 102.
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g O M E W H A T fmaller than the laft; length two feet three
inches: breadth three feet fix : weight three pounds and
three quarters. The bill is four inches long, narrow, dufky,
and hooked at the end : irides fine green : on each fide the head
a long tuft of dulky feathers reaching beyond the crown, forming
a fine creft : the head, neck, and lower part of the back, fine
glofiy green : the upper part of the back and wing coverts the
fame, edged with purplifh black: belly dufky : tail of a dufky
green, confifting of twelve feathers : legs dufky black.
This inhabits Great Britain, and the vaft precipices about
Holyhead; alio Norway, Iceland, and Greenland; but in the latter
not very common. Mr. Pennant obferves, that he met with feve-
ral Shags in the Hebrides, but faw none with the creft j hence
we may fuppofe it to be fomewhat rare.
Violet Corvorant, Artt. Zool. p. 584. B.
T H I S bird is faid to be wholly black, glofied with violet.
The fize not mentioned.
Found about Kamtjchatka and the ifles. One greatly fimilar to
this is in the Leverian Mufeum: the colour of plumage, and fize,
as above-mentioned j but the top of the head is furnifhed with a
long pointed creft, ftanding upright.
Red-faced
P E L I C A N . 601
Red-faced Corvorant, ArH. Zool. p. 584. C.
Urile, Hiß. Kamtfch. p. 157.
'J 'H I S is fomewhat lefs than the Corvorant: length two feet
ten inches. Bill three inches and a half long j the bafe of a
reddifh green, the end black: round the eye a bare fkin of a
reddifh colour: head and neck dark blackifh green j on the middle
of the neck before a few (lender white narrow feathers, thinly
interfperfed among the others, many of them two inches and a
half in length : back and wings dufky black, but glofiy; the
back has alfo a glofs of green in fome lights, with here and there
a white (lender feather:. the belly is wholly black : on each fide
of the rump a large patch of white feathers : tail fix inches in
length, confifting of twelve feathers : colour of the quills black :
legs black.
Inhabits Kamtfchatka, chiefly about the rocky and craggy
places on the fea coafts, in which places it builds the neft in
June. The eggs are the fize of a Hen's, of a green colour, and
very ill-tafted ; notwithftanding which the natives think it
worth while to climb the rocks for them at the hazard of
their lives. Like others of the genus it feeds on fift>, fwallowing
them whole. Flies well and fwifcly; but rifes with difficulty
from the ground. While fitting on the rocks faid to be very
ftupid, and not eafily roufed; hence the natives catch them eafily,
by means of nets thrown over them, or noofes at the end of long
poles; and not unfrequently thefe filly birds, fuffer themfelves to be
taken one after another to the very laft. As a food, every one
but a Kamtfchadale muft abhor it, yet this nation think it very
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