240 GREEN- CRESTED CORMORANT. 



bronzed brown, darker at the shafts, and surrounded 

 by a broad zone of velvet black ; on the secondaries 

 this occupies the outer edge only ; quills and tail 

 dull black ; upon each thigh there is a conspicuous 

 oval spot of pure white, of greater or less size and 

 distinctness according to the season, and at times 

 only marked by one or two straggling feathers ; feet 

 and legs black. 



GREEN-CRESTED CORMORANT. 



Phcdacracorax cristatus. 



PLATE XX. 



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Phalacracorax cristatus, Steph., Flem., Selby. Carbo cristatus, 

 oormoran longup, Temm. Crested Cormorant, or Shag Green 

 Cormorant of British authors. 



THIS species, undergoing a less general change than 

 the last, only losing its beautiful crest, is more de- 

 cidedly maritime in habits, and although generally, 

 it is not so abundantly distributed around our shores 

 as the last ; its British range is, however, as exten- 

 sive ; its breeding-places are precipitous sea-cliffs ; 

 the most extensive colony which has ever come 

 under our observation is one in the Isle of Man, on 



