558 PHALACROCORAX 



780. PELAGIC CORMORANT. 

 PHALACROCORAX PELAGICU3. 



Phalacrocorax pelagicus, Pall. Zoogr. Koss. As. ii. p. 303, pi. Ixxvi. 

 (1811) ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 533 ; Seebohm, B. Jap. 

 Emp. p. 210 ; Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxvi. p. 360 ; (Tacz.), F. 0. 

 Sib. 0. p. 1080 ; P. resplendens, And. Orn. Biogr. v. p. 148, pi. 412, 

 fig. 1 (1839). 



Morskoi Uril, Russ. ; U-garasu, Jap. 



$ ad. (N.W.America). Differs from P. bicristatus in having the feathers 

 on the forehead extended to the base of the culmen ; head and neck 

 glossy violet-black, purplish towards the head, the lower neck tinged with 

 steel-blue ; rump and under parts dark silky green ; scapulars and wing- 

 coverts bottle-green tinged with bronzy purple ; neck and rump ornamented 

 with narrow white filamentous feathers ; flanks with a white patch. After 

 the breeding season the white filamentous feathers and the crests on the 

 head and nape are cast ; gular sac and naked lores dull brownish red. 

 Culmen 1'85, wing 9 '5, tail 6 '3, tarsus 2'1 inch. Female similar but rather 

 smaller. The young bird differs from P. Ucristatus in having the back 

 and scapulars glossed with dull green and not with purple. 



Hob. Coasts of Kamchatka, Eastern Siberia south to 

 Southern China ; Japan ; west coast of North America from 

 Alaska to Western Mexico. 



In habits and nidification this bird does not differ from 

 P. carlo. 



Mr. Ridgway divides this Cormorant into three subspecies, 

 viz. : P. pelagicus from the coast of Kamchatka and the Aleutian 

 Islands ; south in winter to the Kuriles and northern Japan ; 

 P. pelagicus robustus, Ridgw., from the coast of Alaska, from 

 Norton's Sound, south to Washington Territory ; and 

 P. pelagicus resplendens (Aud.) from the Pacific coast, from 

 Washington Territory to Western Mexico (Mazatlan and Cape 

 St. Lucas). 



781. SHAG. 

 PHALACROCORAX GRACULUS. 



Phalacrocorax graculus (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 217 (1766); (Naum.), 

 xi. p. 88, Taf. 280 ; Gould, B. of Gt. Brit. v. pi. 53 ; Dresser, vi. 

 p. 163, pi. 389 ; Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxvi. p. 364 ; Saunders, 

 p. 363 ; Lilford, vii. p. 5, pi. 2 ; P. cristatus (Miiller), Zool. Dan. 

 Prodr. p. 18, No. 150 (1776) ; Hewitson, ii. p. 473, pi. cxxx. fig. 2 ; 

 Gould, B. of E. v. pis. 410, 411 ; P. desmaresti (Payraudeau), Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. 1826, p. 460 ; Grant, op. cit. xxvi. p. 368. 



