426 TEN YEAES IN SWEDEN. 



Gen. Sula, Briss. 



Beak long, sharp-pointed, very thick at the root ; upper 

 mandible toothed behind the tip ; nasal furrow long ; nos- 

 trils basal, scarcely perceptible ; both mandibles crenated on 

 the edges, and the gape extends far back under the eye, as 

 also is the case with the cormorants ; throat and face bare ; 

 legs short ; wings long and pointed ; first wing feather short ; 

 tail pointed ; twelve feathers. 



282. SULA BASSANA, Briss. Hafsula. The Gannet. D. 



Length 3 ft. ; tail 7-^- in. ; beak from gape 6 in. ; tarsus 

 2 in. 1 1. ; middle toe 4 1. ; primaries and their nearest 

 coverts black ; all the rest of the plumage white, with a 

 deep yellow ochre tint upon the head and neck ; beak 

 blueish ; cere blue ; legs green-brown ; toes with long 

 green-yellow streaks ; eye yellow. 



The female is less than the male. Young, grey-brown, 

 white and brown spotted. Is rare on these coasts, and does 

 not, I believe, breed in Scandinavia. 



Gen. Phalacrocorax, Briss. 



Beak long, sharp, edges not serrated ; the point of the 

 upper mandible forms a large hook over the tip of the 

 under one ; eye, cheeks, side of gape, and chin, bare ; nos- 

 trils basal ; wings short ; third feather longest \ tail rounded, 

 twelve to fourteen elastic stiff feathers. 



283. PHALACROCOKAX CAEBO, Cuv. Hafstjiider. The Cor- 



morant. D. F. 



Length 2-i to 3 ft. ; beak from gape 4 in. 5 1. ; tarsus 

 2 in. 61.; tail 6 in., fourteen feathers ; a white gorget 

 under the throat ; back and shoulders brown-grey, with 

 a bronze tinge ; all the under parts, middle of the back 

 and rump glossy blue. 



In the spring the front of the neck is grey, and there is 

 a white patch on the thighs ; beak brown-grey \ feet black j 

 iris green ; the head is bushy, but no top crest. The sum- 

 mer dress differs but' little from this, only the white thigh 



