256 LONG-TAILED CORMORANT. 



haying a large and conspicuous transverse spot at 

 the end of each, but the extreme margin of their 

 tips is white ; on the three or four last and largest 

 of these feathers this black spot almost disappears ; 

 those of the wing-covers that are near the shoulder 

 are deep black, and it is only those in the middle 

 of the wing which resembles the scapulars; the 

 shoulders, the outer margin of the wing, and the 

 quills, are deep unspotted glossy black, as is all the 

 rest of the plumage. Tail-feathers narrow, long, and 

 much graduated, their tips are rounded ; throat and 

 breast mottled with brown ; chin and body beneath 

 pure white ; the feathers are not pointed. 



Total length, 17 inches; bill, gape, 2 T %; front, 

 l T 3 o; wings, 8|, reaching to the base of the tail; 

 tail, 6J, outer-feather 3 inches shorter ; tarsus, 1 

 outer toe and claw, 2 J. 



