Shag
coarse hair or nap; rough woolly hair; a kind of cloth having a long coarse nap; a kind of tobacco cut into fine shreds; a shred; roughness, coarseness; in ornithology, the Phalacrocorax graculus, the scart, or crested cormorant. It is smaller than the common cormorant (P. carbo), from which it is distinguished also by its rich dark green tions. Se plumage, with purple and bronze reflec- Sexes colored alike.