446 NATAT. PHALACROCORAX. CORMORANT. 



to different tribes of the terrestrial orders is observable. 

 Their flight, though heavy, is direct and strong. They are 

 subject to a double moult, but the nuptial change is general- 

 ly confined to the regions of the head and thighs. The plu- 

 mage of both sexes is alike. 



COMMON CORMORANT. 



PHALACBOCOBAX CABBO, Sleph. Flem. 

 PLATE LXXXIV. 



Phalacrocorax Carbo, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 13. 76. pL 10. Flem. Br. Anim. 



1. 117. No. 169. 

 Pelecanus Carbo, Linn. Syst. 1. 216. 3 Gmel. Syst. 1. 573 Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 886. sp. 14. 

 Carbo cormoranus, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 894. 



Corvus aquaticus, Raii Syn. 122. A Will. 240. pi. 63. 



Phalacrocorax, Briss. 6. 511. t. 45. 



Le Cormoran, Buff. Ois. 8. 310. t. 26 Id. PI. Enl. 927. 



Grand Cormoran, Temm. Man. 2. 894 Lesson, Man. 2. 373. 



Der Schwarze Pelikan, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 750. 



Cormorant or Corvorant, Will. (Angl.) 329. t. 63. Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 608. 



No. 291 Alton's Birds, 2. t. 81 Lath. Syn. 6. 593. Lewin's Br. Birds, 



6. 263. Mont Ornith. Diet, and Sup Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, p. 



t. 379 Low's Faun. Oread. 146. 

 Common Cormorant, Shaw's Zool. 13. pi. 76. pi. 10 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 



117- No. 169. 

 Crested Corvorant, Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, p. t. 385. 



PROVINCIAL Great. Black Cormorant, Cole Goose, Start, Brongie. 



ALTHOUGH the Cormorant appears to have been always 

 common upon our coasts, and of known extensive distribu- 

 tion throughout the maritime districts of the north of Eu- 

 rope, it is only within the last few years that the changes of 

 plumage to which it is subject, have been perfectly investi- 

 gated, and that the mistakes of earlier writers have been 

 corrected by the observations of MONTAGU, TEMMINCK, and 

 other eminent ornithologists. It has been described by se- 

 veral as a distinct species when in its summer or nuptial plu- 

 mage. Some have considered this state as indicative only of 

 the male bird, whilst others have regarded it as a common or 



