446 NATAT. PHALACROCORAX. Cormorant. 
to different tribes of the terrestrial orders is observable. 
Their flight, though heavy, is direct and strong. 'They are 
subject toa 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. 
Puatacrocorax Carso, Steph. 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. 686. sp. 14. 
Carbo cormoranus, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 894. 
Corvus aquaticus, Raii Syn. 122. A.—Wiil. 240. pl. 63. 
Phalacrocorax, Briss. 6. 511. t. 45. 
Le Cormoran, Buff: Ois, 8. 310. t. 26.—Id. Pl. 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.—Albin’s Birds, 2. t. 81.—Lath. Syn. 6. 593.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 
6. 263.— Mont. Ornith. Dict. and Sup.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, p. 
t. 379.—Low’s Faun. Oxcad. 146. 
Common Cormorant, Shaw’s Zool. 13. pl. 76. pl. 10.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 
117. No. 169. 
Crested Corvorant, Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, p. t. 385. 
Provinciat—Great Black Cormorant, Cole Goose, Skart, Brongie. 
AvtHovucH 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 Monracu, Tremminck, 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 
