Stomach large, membranous, no gizzard. 

 The occipital bone is furnished with a long process 

 to which the long muscles of the neck are attached. 



(GREGARIOUS.) 



1. CARBO. CORMORANT, OR CORVORANT. 



P. cauda rotundata, corpore nigro, capite subcristato. 

 Lath. 



The bill is ash colour, with a yellow naked skin 

 round the base, extended under the chin, where it 

 forms a pouch ; irides bright green ; head and neck 

 black, a short pendant crest ; all the upper parts 

 are of a glossy blue-black, with green reflections ; 

 shoulders and wing-coverts bronze, tinged with green, 

 and spotted with black; tail of 14 feathers, which 

 are stiff; legs black; the middle claw is serrated. 



The weight is 7lb. length 3 feet 4 inches. 



Var. chin white ; cheek and throat grey, &c. 



The female lays 4 or more eggs, which are green- 

 ish-white. 



May be domesticated. (See Montagu's Supp. Orn. 

 Diet. 



They feed principally on fish : several which we 

 opened were full of young cole-fish. (Gadus car bo- 

 narius.) 



