CORMORANT. 



(X'halacrocoraz carbo, Dumoxt. Bonap. Synops. No. 353. Carbo 

 cormoranus, Meyer. Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 894. Pelecanus 

 carlo, LixN. Gmel. Lath. Ind. ii. sp. 14. Le Cormoran, Buff. 

 Ois. viii. p. 310. t. 26. Ie. PI. Enlum. 927. [summer dress.] The 

 Cormorant, Penn. Brit. Zool. p. 159. t. L. 1. [the young of a year 

 old.] Ibid. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 509. Phil. Museum. No. . . .) 



Sp. Charact. — Bill 4 inches long; tail moderate, rounded, consist- 

 ing of 14 feathers. — Adult glossy black; a white collar on the 

 throat. In summer a golden-green crest ; head, neck, and thighs 

 with long, slender, silky, white feathers. Young blackish; be- 

 neath mixed with whitish. 



