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PHALACROCORACID^. 



like feathers, but even longer than those on the neck and bearing 

 narrow webs. Iris green ; bill dusky gre}' ; naked gular skin blue ; 

 legs and feet deep black. 



Adult ill, non-breedinr/ plumagi'. Similar to the above, but the 

 white hair-like tufts on each side of the head and the white filaments 

 on the back and scapulars absent. 



Tail composed of 12 feathers *. 



Adult. Total length about 30 inches, culmen 2'65-3, wing 10'6- 

 11-1, tail 4-4-4-7, tarsus 2-5. 



Hah. Pacific coast of North America, from the mouth of the 

 Columbia Iliver to California. 



Cuhn. Wing. Tail. 



a. Ad. sk. 2-65 lO-ti 4-4 California. Sir W. Burnett and 



Capt. Fitzroy [P.]. 



b. (S ad.sk. 3-0 IM 47 California. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



c. d" ad. sk. 2-9 11-2 4-65 Monterey, California, ^| 



April 12. 



d. J ad. sk. 2-9 11-0 4o Monterey, California, 



August 3. 



e. S ad. sk. 2-6 IPO 47 Monterey, California, I Mr. Alvin Seals 



Aus-ust 11. r [C.]- 



/. $ ad. sk, 2-6 10-3 3-8 Monterev, California, 



May 4. 

 j^. c? imm. sk. 2-8 IPO 3-9 Monterey, California, 



Mav 9. J 



h. J ad. sk. 275 10-6 4-6 San Miguel I., Cali- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



foruia {Capt. S. 



Turney). 



12. Phalacrocorax graculus. 



Le petit Cormorau, Brisson, Oni. vi. p. 516 (1760) ; Buffon, Hist. 



Nat. Ois. viii. p. 319 (1781). 

 Pelecanus graculus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 217 (1766) ; Gmel. S. N. i. 



pt. ii. p. 674 (1788) ; Lath. hid. Oni. ii. p. 887 (1790) : Bonnat. 



Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 47 (1790) ; Cuv. Reg. Anim., Ois. i. 



p. 562 (1829). 

 Common Shag, Latham, Gen. Si/n. iii. pt. ii. p. 598 (1785). 

 Crested Shag, Latham, Gen. Syn. iii. pt. ii. p. 600 (1785) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. B. X. p. 423 (1824). 

 Pelecanus cristatus. Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 575 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. 



Orn. ii. p. 888 (1790) ; Bonnat. Tahl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 49, pi. xv. 



fig. 2 (1790); Dumont, in LevrauWs Diet. Sci. Nat. x. p. 452 



(1818).~ 

 Cavbo graculus, Meyer ^- Wolf, Tasch. der Deids. ii. p. 578 (1810) ; 



Lesson, Traited'Orn. p. 605 (1831); Schinz, Nat. Abbild., Vog. 



p. 384, pi. 1.32. fig. (1833) ; Griindal, Ornis, ii. p. 613 (1886) 



[Iceland] ; Giitke, Heligoland, p. 542 (English ed. 1895). 



* Both in the Water-Birds of North America, ii. p. 14-5 (Synopsis) and in 

 Ridgway's Manual N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 79 (1896) the number of tail- 

 feathers is stated to bo 14 ; but in the i'ormer woi-k under the description of the 

 species, p. 158, the number is correctly given as 12. See also remarks by 

 Coues, Auk, xiv. p. 316 (1897). 



