158 



TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS — STEGANOPODES. 



on the borders of the liio Bravo del Norte, in tlie vicinity of Matamoras, and also 

 along the coast of Texas. 



Eggs in the Smithsonian Collection, procured in Cuba by Professor Poey, are, in 

 all respects of color and slui})e, like those of all the species of this genus, the color 

 being a glaucous white, with cretaceous incrustations. These eggs measure from 2.15 

 to 2.25 inches in length, by from 1.35 to 1.40 in breadth. 



Phalacrocorax penicillatus. 



BRANDT'S CORMORANT. 



Carbo penicillatus, Bhandt, Uull. Sc. Acad. St. Petersb. III. 1838, 55 (patria ignota). 

 Phalacrocorax penicillatus, HEEr>M. Pr. Pliilad. Acad. VII. 1854, 178. — Ridgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 



1881, no. 645. — CouEs, 2d Check List, 1882, no. 754. 

 Urile pevicillatus, BoNAP. Consp. II. 1855, 175 (part). 

 GraciUus penicillatus, Gray, Gen. B. III. 1845, 668. — Lawr. in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 880.— 



Baikd, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 626. — CouES, Ke}^ 1872, 304 ; Check List, 1873, no. 532. 

 Phalacrocorax Townsendi, AuD. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 149 ; Synop. 1839, 304 ; B. Am. VI. 1843, 438, 



pi. 418 (^3'nung). 



Hab. Pacific coast of North America, from Cape St. Lncas to W.asliington Territory. 

 Sp. Char. Tail-feathers, 12. Feathers of the throat forming an acute angle anteriorly, those 

 on the malar region forming a shorter angle, extending nearly to the base of the mandible ; bill 

 narrower than deep, the maxillary unguis not arched, but slender and decidedly hooked, the cul- 



men gently ascending 

 basally ; both maxilla 

 and mandilde marked 

 with numerous fine 

 longitudinal sulcations. 

 Adult, in full breeding- 

 plumacje : Head, neck, 

 and rump soft glo.'^sy 

 blue-black, or dark in- 

 digo-blue, passing in- 

 sensibly into soft dark 

 bottle-green on the 

 lower parts ; Ibrehead 

 less lustrous and more 

 brownish ; scapulars 

 and wing-coverts dark 

 dull greenish, each 

 feather narrowly and 

 rather mdistinctly bor- 

 dered with black. 

 Feathers adjoining the 

 base of the gular sac 

 pale fawn- or isabella- 

 color(some times brown- 

 ish white), forming a 

 somewhat crescentic 

 patch on the upper 

 part of the throat, extending up on each side to the rictus. On each side of the neck, commen- 

 cing behind the brownish gorget, and continued downward for a greater or less distance, long, 

 rather rigid, hair-like filamentous feathers of brownish white or pale straw-color ; anterior part of 

 the scapular region adorned with simdar but broader fdaments. Bdl grayish dusky ; gular sac 



