tolerable, whether owing to the method of cooking or not is not
fo certain : their method is to roaft it in holes in the earth,
whole, without plucking off the feathers, or taking out the entrails,
and after it is done enough they fkin and eat it. It is
faid to have no tongue j yet it is averred that it cries morning
and evening, not greatly unlike the blowing of a trumpet. By
fome this bird has been called the Sea Raven *.
jg Creited Shag, Coot's lafi Voy. i. p. 151.
SPOTTED SH. Leqi- Muf-
Pl . CIV.
SIZ E of the Shag: length two feet, or more. Bill three inches
- , , , . J , - , - .. ,
long, of a pale blueifli lead-colour$ in lome yellow j the tip
hooked: round the eyes bare, and of a dulky red: the chin,
throat, and fore part of the neck, are nearly black; as are the
forehead, hind part of the neck, and beginning of the back : juft
over the forehead arife fome long feathers, forming a pointed
creft; and at the hind part of the head a fecond, not unlike the
firft, but rather longer, fome o f the feathers meafuring an inch
and a half: juft-over the eye begins a line of white, which paffes
down on each fide of the neck quite to the wing, and growing
broader as it proceeds downwards : the middle of the back, and
the wings, are of a brownilh aih-colour, each feather tipped at the
end with a round fpot of black, largeft on the wing coverts, but
no where bigger than a fmall pea : quills not fpotted : from the
middle of the back to the end of the tail, and from between the
legs to the vent, black gloffed with green : tail three inches in
length, rounded at the end -, that and the quills plain black: legs
* Hiß, Kamtftb,
deep
deep brown, or black. In fome fpecimens the bill is reddifh, and
the legs dull yellow: the chin white, covered with feathers, and
deftitute of creft : the feathers of the fides near the vent ftreaked
with white : thighs black: the ftripe on each fide of the neck not
fo diftinft j and the black on the neck lefs pure. Whether this
conftitutes the difference of fex muft be left to future obfervation.
In other birds I obferve the creft as in the firft-defcribed j but the
diftenfible pouch of the throat not bare, and feemingly much lefs
capacious. I have likewife obferved one with the white on the
fides of the neck not palling above half the length of it.
This fpecies inhabits New Zealand, and builds among the Place.
rocks; met with principally in Queen Charlotte’s Sound, where it
is known by the name of Pa-degga-degga.
Lev, Muf,
S. LM O S T the fize of the laft. Bill dufky : fides of the head
bare of feathers : between the bill and eye much caruncu-
lated, and red j the reft of the fpace round the eye alh-colour;
the orbits of a fine mazarine blue, and elevated; and over the eye
is a tubercle larger than the reft: the irides are whitilh, or very
pale brown : the head-fomewhat flat on the fides, and the crown
rather full of feathers: the top of the head, and fides of it, the
hind part of the neck, and all the upper parts of the body, the
wings, and tail, are black, except a longilli patch of white on the
wing coverts: the forehead, chin, and all beneath, white: the
legs are flelh-colour, or very pale brown.
This inhabits.New Zealand; found in Queen Charlotte’s Sound,
though not in plenty •, but was met with by millions in Staaten
4 H 2 Land-,
CARUNCULA-
TED SH.
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