. Arctic zoology .. . Wanders for food as far as the coaft ofLijhon, and Gihraltar, where it has been feen in December, plunging■ for Sardime. Straggles as high as Greenland\. In northern Jfia, ithas been once feen by Steller ofi^ Berings ifie; but has been frequent-ly met with in the fouthern hemifphere, in the Pacifie ocean j * Du Ha/ite, i. 316. f Laivfoti, 150. % Olaf, heland. tl Faim. ■Qtocnl. p. gz, 9 .particularly^, CRESTED C O R V O R A N T. particularly, in numbers about New Zealand and New Holland*.Captain Cook alfo faw them in his paffage from England to the Cape ofGood Hijpe -f, an
. Arctic zoology .. . Wanders for food as far as the coaft ofLijhon, and Gihraltar, where it has been feen in December, plunging■ for Sardime. Straggles as high as Greenland\. In northern Jfia, ithas been once feen by Steller ofi^ Berings ifie; but has been frequent-ly met with in the fouthern hemifphere, in the Pacifie ocean j * Du Ha/ite, i. 316. f Laivfoti, 150. % Olaf, heland. tl Faim. ■Qtocnl. p. gz, 9 .particularly^, CRESTED C O R V O R A N T. particularly, in numbers about New Zealand and New Holland*.Captain Cook alfo faw them in his paffage from England to the Cape ofGood Hijpe -f, and remoter from land than they had been feen elfe-where. Among thofe obferved in the South Sea, is the variety calledSula^, with a few black feathers in the tail and among the fecon-daries. Found not only on the Feroe iflands, but on our coafts, onehaving been brought to me a few years ago, which had fallen downwearied, with its flight. A moft ample account of the manners of theGajjnet is given in the Br, Zool. A^2. Crested Corvorant. Shag, Sr. Zool, ii. N° 292.—Latham, iJL-Pelecanus Criftatus. To^-^, N° 123.—Faun. Groml,N 5,8.—Lev. Mus,-—Bl. Mus. T) With a narrow dufky bill, hooked at the end : irides finegreen : on each fide of the head is a long tuft of dufky fea-thers reaching beyond the crown : head, neck, and lower part ofthe back,, of a fine and glolTy green : the upper part of the back, andeoverts of the wings^ of the fame color, edged with purplifh black :belly dufky : tail confifts of twelve feathers, dufky tinged withgreen. Length two feet three. Extent three feet fix. Weightthree pounds three quarters. Inhabits, in Great Britain, the vaft precipices about Holyhead; Piacb, and is found in Norway, Iceland^, and in the fouth of Greenland % ; * Cooks Fir ft Voy> ii. 382,—iii. 439, 627. \ Cooks Voy, tsisiards the South Pole, i. 10, II. \Wil. Orn, 331. U Olaffen, ii. tab, xxxix. ^T Fmn. Groenl. N 58. but SU VIOLET AND RED-FACED CORVORANT. but
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