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toth'almate swimmers — steganopodes. 



iijiiji 



on the borders of the Rio liravo del Norte, in the vicinity of ISIatamoras, and also 

 along the coast of Texas. 



Eggs in the Smithsonian Collection, procured in Cuba by I'rofessor I'oey, are, in 

 all respects of color and shajie, like those of all the species of this genus, the color 

 being a glaucous white, with cretaceous incrustations. These eggs measure from li.lo 

 to 2.25 inches in length, by from 1.35 to 1.40 in breadth. 



Phalacrocoraz penicillatus. 



BBANDT'S COBHOBANT. 



Carbo prniciUntus, Bkandt, IJull. So. Aoud. !St. IVtersb. III. 1838, 55 (patria ignnin). 

 Phal)icrocora.r jictiici/hhis, Hickiim. I'r. I'liilad. Aciul. VII. 1854,178. — UiDcw, Noiii. N. Am. B. 



1881, 110. 645. — CouKs, 2d Clieck List, 1882, no. 754. 

 Urile pciiicil/iilim, BoxAi". Consp. II. 1855, 175 (part). 

 Gnicu/us pcnkilhitus, (iUAY, Oen. B. 111. 184."», 668. — Lawii. in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 880.— 



Baiui>, Cut. X. Am. 15. 1850, no. 626. — t'Dinw, Kej', 1872, 304 ; Check List, 1873, no. 532. 

 Phuliuroconix rmi-nsendi, AuD. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 149 ; Synop. 183!», 304 ; B. Am. VI. 1843, 438, 



pL 418 (= young). 



Had. Pacific coast of North Aineiica, from Cape St. Lucas to Washin<^toii Territory. 

 Sp. Chak. Tail-feathers, 12. Feathers of tlie throat forming an acute angle anteriorly, those 

 on the malar region forming a shorter angle, e.\tcnding nearly to the base ot the mandible ; bill 

 narrower than deep, the maxillary unguis not arched, but slender and decidedly hooked, the eul- 



men gently ascendinj^ 

 basally ; both ma.xilla 

 and mandible marked 

 with numerous fine 

 longitudinal sulcalions. 

 Ailult, in full brecdiiKi- 

 jiliiviiKje : Head, neck, 

 and rump soft glossy 

 blue-black, or dark iu- 

 digo-blue, jiassing in- 

 .sensibly into soft dark 

 bottle-green on the 

 lower parts ; I'orehead 

 less lustrous and more 

 brownish ; scapulars 

 and wing-coverts dark 

 dull greenish, each 

 feather narrowly and 

 rather hidistinctly bor- 

 dered with black. 

 Feathers adjoining the 

 base ot the gular sac 

 l)ale fawn- or isabella- 

 color(sometimes brown- 

 ish white), forming a 

 somewhat crescentii' 

 patcli on the upptv 

 part of the throat, extending up on each side to the rictus. On each side of the neck, conuiieii- 

 cing l)ehind the brownish ;,'orget, and continued downward for u greater or less distance, long, 

 rather rigid, hair-like filanu-ntous feathers of brownish white or pale straw-color ; anterior jmrt of 

 the scapular region adorned with similar but broader filaments. Bill grayish <lusky ; gular sac 



