158 



TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS — STEGANOPODES. 



on the borders of the Eio Bravo del Norte, in the vicinity of Matainoras, and also 

 along the coast of Texas. 



Eggs in the Smithsonian Collection, procured in Cuba by Professor Poey, are, in 

 all respects of color and shape, like those of all the species of this genus, the color 

 being a glaucous white, with cretaceous incrustations. These eggs measure from 2.15 

 to 2.25 inches in length, by from 1.35 to 1.40 in breadth. 



Phalacrocorax penicillatus. 



BRANDT'S CORMORANT. 



?8, 55 (patria ignota). 



4, 178. — Ridgw. Norn. N. Am. B. 



Carbo penicillatus, Brandt, Bull. Sc. Acad. St. Petersb. III. 1 

 Phalacrocorax penicillatus, Heei;m. l'r. Philad. Acad. VII. IS 



1881, no. 645. — Coues, 2d Check List, 1882, no. 754. 

 Urile penicillatus, Bonap. Consp. II. 1S55, 175 (part). 

 Graculus penicillatus, Gray, Gen. B. III. 1845, 668. — Lawk, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 880.— 



Baikd, Cat, X. Am. B. 1859, no. 626. — CoUES, Key, 1872, 304 ; Check List, 1S73, no. 532. 

 Phalacrocorax Townsendi, Aud. Om. Biog. V. 1839, 149 ; Synop. 1839, 304 ; B. Am. VI. 1843, 438, 



pi. 418 (= young). 



Hab. Pacific coast of North America, from Cape St. Lucas to Washington Territory. 

 Sp. Char. Tail-feathers, \-2. Feathers of the throat forming an acute angle anteriorly, those 

 on the malar region forming a shorter angle, extending nearly to the base ot the mandible ; bill 

 narrower than deep, the maxillary unguis not arched, but slender and decidedly hooked, the cul- 



men gently ascending 

 basally ; both maxilla 

 and mandible marked 

 with numerous fine 

 longitudinal sulfations. 

 Adult, in full breeding- 

 plumage : Head, neck, 

 and rump soft glossy 

 blue-black, or dark in- 

 digo-blue, passing in- 

 sensibly into soft dark 

 bottle-green on the 

 lower parts ; forehead 

 less lustrous and more 

 brownish ; scapulars 

 and wing-coverts dark 

 dull greenish, each 

 feather narrowly and 

 rather indistinctly bor- 

 dered with black. 

 Feathers adjoining the 

 base of the gular sac 

 pale fawn- or isabella- 

 color (sometimes brown- 

 ish white), forming a 

 somewhat crescentic 

 patch on the upper 

 part of the throat, extending up on each side to the rictus. On each side of the neck, commen- 

 cing behind the brownish gorget, and continued downward for a greater or less distance, long, 

 rather rigid, hair-like filamentous feathers of brownish white or pale straw-color ; anterior part of 

 the scapular region adorned with similar but broader filaments. Bill grayish dusky ; gular sac 



