Summer 
plumage. 
Winter 
plumage. 
Young. 
450 
NATAT. PHALACROCORAX. CoRMORANT. 
part of the neck, breast, mesial line, and lower part of 
the back, and the whole of the under plumage glossy 
bluish-black ; in some lights shewing a green reflection. 
Shoulders, scapulars, and greater part of the wing- 
coverts bronzed hair-brown, each feather surrounded by 
a zone of glossy velvet-black. Quills and tail black ; 
the feathers of the latter having their shafts stiff and 
elastic, and the webs coarseand harsh. ‘The end of the 
tail frequently worn by its use as a prop to support the 
body. Bill three inches long from the forehead to the tip; 
the upper mandible blackish-grey ; the base of the lower 
one yellowish. Guttural dilatable skin black, with minute 
specks of king’s-yellow. Naked skin around the eyes 
greenish-yellow. Irides bright green. Legs and toesblack ; 
the outer toe, including its nail, four inches in length. 
In winter, or after the autumnal moult, the occipital crest 
is wanting, and the head and upper part of the neck 
have only a‘few minute specks of white, almost imper- 
ceptible. Throat-collar greyish-white. In other re- 
spects as in the plumage of summer.—The young of the 
year have the head and neck brownish-black, slightly 
glossed with purplish-green. Throat-collar faintly indi- 
cated by a lighter tint. Under plumage inclining to broc- 
coli-brown, mixed with greyish-white. Mantle,scapulars, 
and wing-coverts greyish-black, having the feathers bor- 
dered with blackish-brown. Bill pale hair-brown. 
CRESTED SHAG, OR GREEN CORMORANT. 
Puatacrocorax cristatus, Steph., Flem. 
PLATE LXXXVI. 
Phalacrocorax cristatus, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 13. 83.—Flem. Br. Anim. 118. 
No. (71. 
Phalacrocorax Graculus, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 2. 887. sp. 15. 
Pelecanus Graculus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 887. sp. 15. 
Corvus aquaticus minor, Raii Syn. 123. A. 
Carbo cristatus, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 900. 
Cormoran Largup, Temm. Man. 2. 900. 
