•» Land; and is laid by the voyagers to build in towns. By this
is meant when they form themfelves into focieties, and take certain
places to themfelves. They make the neft near the edges
of the cliffs, on the tops of the tufts of grafs *, which are flat and
broad above, occafioned by thefe birds building upon them from
year to year.
20.
MAGELLANIC
SH.
Description.
Place and
Manners.
Lev. Mu/.
T E N G T H thirty inches. Bill three inches long, black: fides
of the head, and the chin, bare, and reddifh; but the middle of
the laft is fomewhat downy : the head and neck, as far as the
breaft, the back, wings, and tail, are of a deep black j the head
and neck fomewhat glofiy, and the feathers of the firft feem full,
making that part appear larger than it really is ; but the head is
by no means crefted : behind each eye is a fpot of white:
the under parts, from the breaft, are alfo white; and the fide
feathers under the wings ftriped with white: thighs black: the
quills and tail are deep black; the laft cuneiform, and four inches
in length : legs pale brown.
Inhabits 'Terra del Fuego, Is alfo met with at Staaten Land',
and. is gregarious, like others of this genus. In Chrijtmas Sound
build by thoufands among the rocks, chufing fuch places where
they projeft over the fea, or at leaft where they rife perpendicularly,
that in cafe the young fall out, they may take no harm,
dropping only into the water. Are faid to make holes in the
* Da&ylis glomerata. Lin.— See Fcrj}. Vcy. i.'- p. 41.— This grows frequently
four feet high, and is two or three times as much in breadth at top. The Pen-
rum often take ihelter beneath it.— U. Oif. p. 41.,
rock,
rock, fuitable to their purpofe, of themfelves, or at leaf! enlarging
the natural cavities fo much, in the rock which is not of the
hardeft fort, as to make room for their offspring in them. Shags,
both in this as well other places unfrequented by man, are fo
tame as to be very little frightened at the report of a gun; for,
on being fired at, though they were at firft difturbed, they immediately
returned to the neft, fo as to make it a matter of no great
difficulty to fhoot them on the wing, as they moftly flew but
heavily %
ST— i E,N
Lev. Muf.
G T H two feet fix inches. Bill four inches and a half,
formed as in the Shag the top of it dufky; the reft of it,
and bare fpace about the eye, yellow: over the eyes a narrow
ftreak of a pale colour: the top of the head, hind part of the
neck, back, wings, and tail, are brown 5 the middle of the back,
and wing coverts, paleft; the margins of the laft almoft white, or
very pale : the lower part of the back, rump, and thighs, very
deep brown, nearly black : quills black; fome of thofe neareft
the body have pale tips : tail brown black, rounded in fhape, and
fix inches or more in length ; the outer margins and fhafrs white :
the under parts, from the chin to the vent, wholly white : legs
flefh-colour : claws dufky.
The above defcription is taken from a fpecimen in the Leverian
Mufeum; fimilar to which I obferve one among the drawings of
Sir Jo/eph Banks.. This differed in a few particulars:— the plumage
much the fame, except that in the brown parts the colour
* Forfi Foj, li. p. 494,495.
was
PIED SH.
Description.