G enus XCIÏI. P E N G U I N .
Cape Penguin, Gen. Sjn. yi. p. 566. N° 5.
\ X ^ E find by Mr. Sfarrman *, that at prefent the little ifland of
Malagas, in Falfle Bay, is particularly reforted to by the Penguins
and Seals; and although Robben or Seal Ifland (otherwife
called Penguin Ifland) in Table Bay, bears the name of the bird,
they have been feldom found there fiace the ifland has been inhabited.
G e n u s X C 1V. P E L I C A N .
C0rvoranty Gen» Syn, vi. p. 593. N* 13.—-Sepf Vog, pi. in p*.
T T is difficult to make the Corvorant rife from the water, efpe-
cially if followed, and obliged to dive many times,, as its feathers
imbibe much wet. On this account, it is obferved, that
when it comes out o f the water, it expands and flaps the wings as
foon as poffible, that the feathers may the fooner dry. Mr. Jack-
flan. obferved to me, that having once made a great noife beneath,
the neft of a Corvorant which had built in the rocks, he frightened
out three young, which not being fledged enough to fly, dropped
into the water, but immediately fwam about, and dived without
the leaft difficulty, as if they had been ufed to that element.
Both Corvorant and Shag are called about Sandwich by the name
o f Cole-Goefe *.
Spotted Shag, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 602. N° 18.
Pelican u« pun&atus, Sparrm. Muf Carl/, pi» 10.
rT 'H I S , like the Corvorant, and many other birds, has, no doubt,
two manners of building, each fuited to its prefent convenience.
It is faid ufually to build among the rocks; but we are
told by Dr, Sjsarrman, that it makes the neft in the trees alfo,
* Mr. Soys..
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