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a border, 20 mm. wide, to the gular pouch and naked skin below eye; 

 entire crown, nape, neck on all sides, and throat decorated with long, 

 narrow, soft, white plumes which hide most of the short black feathers; 

 crest glossy black, narrow and about 40 mm. long; each flank decorated 

 with a large patch of long, soft, white feathers; upper back, scapulars, 

 and wing-coverts dull bronze-brown, each feather widely bordered with 

 dark bluish green or with glossy black ; quills brownish black ; secondaries 

 washed with greenish; tail and its coverts black. 



Grant gives the following colors and measurements: "Iris bright 

 emerald-green; naked skin round eye greenish brown; below the eye 

 and on gular sack lemon-yellow; bill grayish brown; dusky along culmen 

 and yellowish white toward base; legs and feet blackish. Length, about 

 914; culmen, 58 to 81; wing, 317 to 356; tail, 173 to 183; tarsus, 

 58 to 72." 



Adult in non-breeding plumage. Similar to the above but without 

 the elongated feathers on head, neck, throat, and flanks. 



"Young when first hatched are blind and covered with purplish black 

 skin; in the course of a few days they acquire a thick covering of 

 blackish down. 



"Young in first plumage (September). General color above dull 

 brown, somewhat glossed on head, neck, and back with bluish green; 

 feathers of back, scapulars, and wing-coverts with wide dark margins; 

 throat, front of neck, breast and belly white; sides, flanks, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts dark brownish black. As age advances the fore part 

 of neck and chest become brown. 



"Plumage of the second year (September). Upper parts more like 

 those of the adult, but the plumage is less brilliant and mixed here and 

 there with feathers of the first plumage ; feathers of the breast and belly 

 are all widely tipped with brownish black, giving these parts a mottled 

 appearance. 



''Plumage of the third year (May). Similar to the adult, but the 

 color of upper parts is less brilliant, and the under parts are not of such 

 a rich glossy black. Birds of this age (probably about 26 months old), 

 though they do not breed, assume a partial breeding-plumage; the hair- 

 like feathers on the head and neck being indicated, while the white flank 

 patches are partially acquired." (Grant.) 



The cormorant appears to be somewhat rare in the Philippines but it 

 will perhaps be found breeding in some of the extensive marsh-lands of 

 central Luzon. A fully adult male in breeding plumage, taken in Tarlac 

 Province, yields the following data : Iris bright sea-green ; small spots of 

 bright blue along edges of eyelids and below eye; bare skin below eye 

 bright yellow with a slight orange tinge, this yellow extending to behind 

 angle of mouth and onto base of lower mandible; entire gular pouch 

 dark, almost blackish brown, closely covered with yellow spots; a small 



