CORMORANT. 



SHAG. 

 Phalacrocorax CARBO. 



Char. Prevailing color black, with metallic reflections of green and 

 purple, the mantle glossed with bronzy brown ; the gular pouch bare, 

 and yellow in color, and at its base is a white band extending from be- 

 neath the eyes across the throat. During the spring the feathers of the 

 nape are elongated and form a mane-like crest, and white hair-like feath- 

 ers appear on the head ; also a patch of white is worn on the flanks. Bill 

 black, shading to yellow at the base ; legs black. Length about 36 inches. 



Nest. In a crevice of a sea-washed cliff, or on the flat beach of a lake, 

 or in trees by river, — made of large twigs, sometimes mixed with sea- 

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