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patch is wanting. The young is more tinged with brown. 

 Is met with on many of the western coasts, both in summer 

 and winter, right up to the North Cape. 



There are found in Scandinavia two forms of cormorants, 

 the one above described and a smaller one, which' Nilsson 

 calls the P. Carlo medius, Mellanskarf. This latter is a little 

 over 2 ft. long; beak from gape 3 in. 6 1. ; tail 6 in. ; tarsus 

 2 in. 4 1. ; outer toe 4 in. ; the rings on the outer toe are 

 fifty, in the larger form they are sixty. 



284. P. CRISTATUS, Steph. Krak Skarf. The Shag. D. F. 



Tail twelve feathers, rounded ; beak thin ; the upper 

 mandible not so hooked as in the last, as broad as high 

 at the root; length 26 in.; tail 5 in. 4 1.; beak from 

 gape 3 in. 6 1. ; tarsus 2 in. 2 1. 



Adult in winter and spring : the whole body colour 

 glossy bronzed green ; a high crest on the head ; 

 eye green; legs, feet, and beak black. In the summer 

 and autumn the crest on the top of the head is wanting. 

 The young are brown above, white underneath. Like the 

 last, is met with on the north-west coast throughout the 

 year. 



Gen. Pelecanus, L. 



Beak straight, long and broad ; upper mandible flattened, 

 ending in a large hook ; a naked skin under the base of the 

 under mandible, which forms a pouch; face and throat 

 naked; nostrils basal; wings pointed; the secondaries as 

 long as the primaries ; tail rounded; twenty feathers. 



285. PELECANUS ONOCKOTALUS, L. Hvit Pelikan. F. 



Length 5 ft. ; primaries black ; all the rest of the 

 feathers white, tinged with rosy red ; face pale flesh- 

 colour ; pouch pale yellow. 



One specimen was shot in Finland in 1839, and another 

 inDalecarlia in 1850. Figured by Dr. Bree as "the white 

 pelican." 



