British zoology . o hand. He took much pleafure in them, and re-lates, that the belt he had was one prefented him byMr. Wood, Majier of the Corvorants to Charles is well known that the Chinefe make great ufe ofthefe birds, or a congenerous fort, in fiftiing •, andthat not for amufement, but profit f. 292. Shac. Corvns aquaticus minor. 111. Shag, called in theNorth of England the , cm. aquaticus palmipcs fyn. av. 123. Le petit Cormoran. Brijpm av. VI. graculus. Lin. fyjl. criftatus. Aor- <ve
British zoology . o hand. He took much pleafure in them, and re-lates, that the belt he had was one prefented him byMr. Wood, Majier of the Corvorants to Charles is well known that the Chinefe make great ufe ofthefe birds, or a congenerous fort, in fiftiing •, andthat not for amufement, but profit f. 292. Shac. Corvns aquaticus minor. 111. Shag, called in theNorth of England the , cm. aquaticus palmipcs fyn. av. 123. Le petit Cormoran. Brijpm av. VI. graculus. Lin. fyjl. criftatus. Aor- <vegis Top Skarv. Brunnicb ornith. Zool. 159. ^pHE fling is much inferior in fize to the corvo-Descrip. jL rant. the length is twenty-feven inches j thebreadth three feet fix: the weight three poundsthree quarters. The bill is four inches long, andmore (lender than that of the preceding: the headis adorned with a creft two inches long, pointing * Paradife Lojl, Book IV. 1. 194, &Cf Duhaldi I, 316. back-. 2> Class II. SHAG. 611 backward : the whole plumage of the upper part ofthis bird is of a fine and very mining green, theedges of the feathers a purplilh black ; but thelower part of the back, the head, and neck,wholly green : the belly is dufky : the tail con-fifts of only twelve feathers, of a dufky hue,tinged with green 5 the legs are black, and like thofeof the corvorant. During my voyage among theHebrides, I faw feveral birds of this fpecies mot:they agreed in all refpedts, but in being deftituteof a creft •, whether they were females, a variety,or diftincSc fpecies, rriuft be left to future natu-ralifts to determine. Both thefe kinds agree in their manners, andbreed in the fame places: and, what is very ftrangein webbed footed birds, will perch and build intrees: both {mm with their head quite erec~t, andare very difficult to be fhot; for, like the Grebes ,and Divers, as foon as they fee the flam of the gun,pop under water, and never rife but at a confidera-bl
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