C03I3ION CORMORANT. 



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NATATORES. 



PELECANID^. 



THE COMMON CORMORANT. 



Pelecanus carbo. The Common Corvorant, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 281. 



,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Cormorant, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 397. 



>> >> II II II 'iVO. 



,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 117. 



„ ,, ,, ,, Selbv, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 446. 



,, ,, ,, „ Jenyns, Brit. Yert. p. 262. 



,, ,, „ ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. ix. 



Carbo cormoranus. Grand Cormoran, Temm. Man.d'Ornith. vol.ii.p.894. 



Phalacrocorax. Generic Characters. — Bill moderate, or long, straight, 

 compressed, culmen rounded ; upper mandible very much curved at the point, 

 hooked ; the base connected with a membrane which extends to the throat. 



