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CORVORANT. 



Class II. 



XLVIII. 

 C O R V O- 

 RANT*. 



BILL ftrong, ftrait; end either hooked or Hoping. 

 NOSTRILS, either totally wanting, or fmall, and 



placed in a longitudinal furrow. 

 FACE naked. 



GULLET naked, capable of great diftenfion. 

 TOES, all four webbed. 



291. Corvo- Mergus Plinii lib. x. c. 33. 



Le Cormorant. Belon a<v. 161. 

 Corvus aquaticus, Carbo a- 



quaticus. 136. 

 phalacrocorax. Gefner awi 



683. 350. 

 Jldr. aw. III. 108. 

 The Cormorant. Wil. orn. 



329. 

 Rait jyn. av. 122. 

 Pelecanus Carbo. Lin, fyft. Br. Zool. 159 



216, 98. 



A*". Com. Peir. IV. 423. 

 Le Cormoran. Brzfon a<v. 



VI. 511. tab. 45. The 



Male. 

 Norvegis Skarv, Strand-Ravn. 



Danis Aalekrage. IJlandis 



Skarfur. Brunnich. 1 20, 



Scharb, or See-Rabe. Frifcb, 

 II. 187. 



Scopoli, No. 



Descrip. ~Y HAVE weighed a bird of this fpecies that 

 JL exceeded feven pounds : the length three feet 

 four : the extent four feet two : the bill dufky, 

 five inches long, deftitute ofnoftrils; the bafe of 

 the lower mandible is covered with a naked yel- 

 lowifh (kin, that extends under the chin, and forms 

 a fort of pouch : a loofe fkin of the fame color 



* The learned Dr. Kay, or Caius, derives the word Cor* 

 vorant, from Corvus Gorans, from whence corruptly our word 

 Cormorant. Caii opufc. 99. 



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