III. Nut ice of a Varietij in the common Corvorant. 



PHALACROCORAX CARBO. 



It will be very unnecessary to mention the comparative 

 marks by which the Corvorant is distinguished from the 

 genus Pelican, with which it was arranged by Linne, al- 

 though it had been well characterized by Brisson and other 

 naturalists. INly object is merely to call the attention of 

 naturalists to the curious fact recorded by Montagu in 

 the Supplement to his Ornithological Dictionary ; namely, 

 that the curious bird figured in the annexed plate is no 

 more than a variety of the common Corvorant. 



Montagu received, from Mr. Anstice of Bridgewater, a 

 living specimen of the variety figured (Tab. 123.), and kept 

 it for nearly two years, during which time it entirely lost 

 the white on its throat, neck, and thighs, and assumed the 

 plumage of the common sort; it is therefore proved incon- 

 testably to be but a variety of the Phalacrocorax Carho, 

 a species too well known to require any further notice ia 

 this place. 



