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PHALACROCORAX CARBO. 

 CORMORANT. 



THE GREAT 



GREAT CORMORANT. WHITE-HEADED CORMORANT. WHITE-SPOT CORMO- 

 RANT. CRESTED CORMORANT. GREAT SCART OR SCARVE. COAL GOOSE. 

 BROUGIE. SCARBH-BUILL. 



Fig. 85. 



Pelecanus Carbo. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 216. 



Pelecanus Caibo. Lath. Ind. Ornith. IL 886. 



Cormorant. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Grand Cormoran. Carbo Cormoranu3. Temm. Man. d' Ornith. II. 894. 



Common Cormorant. Phalacrocorax Carbo. Selby, Illustr. II. 446. 



Phalacrocorax Carbo. Common Cormorant. Jenyns. Brit. Vert. An. 263. 



Length about three feet ; tail of fourteen feathers ; imbri- 

 cated feathers of the back and icings ovate, rounded, tvith 

 silky margins. Adult in winter crestless ; the head, neck, 

 lower parts, middle and hind part of the back, greenish-black, 

 thiged with blue ; the feathers of the fore part and sides of 

 the back, with the wing-coverts and secondary quills, greyish- 



