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the remaining upper parts bronzy-black, the throat w hite, the bill 
and feet grey-black. In spring a slight crest adorns the occiput 
and white patches appear on the thighs. In common with its 
congeners this species has naked lores, ‘orbital and cular regions, 
which are here of a yellow colour, becoming redder below the eye 
the iris is emerald-green. The skin of the throat 1s dilatabie 
and forms a pouch for food. It breeds on most of the British 
coasts, except between the Humber and the Thames, and 
oceasionally inland; while it ranges to Greenland northwards, 
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and thence down the Atlantic to New Jersey in the west, 
and to North and even South Africa on the east, as well 
as through Europe and Asia. The Australian and New Zea- 
land P. novae hollandiae is doubtfully distinct. P. dilophus, of 
which several forms occur on the shores and in the interior of 
North America as far south as Mexico, is not unlike P. carbo, but 
has a tuft of long narrow recurved plumes on each side of the 
crown in the nuptial dress, which are black, white, or particoloured 
according to the locality. The bare loral region and gular sac 
are orange, and no white is visible on the throat or flanks. The 
splendid P. pelagicus, on the contrary, has white flank-patches in 
addition to white filaments on the neck and rump, the head and 
