590 CLASS AVES. 



upper mandible bent, and that of the lower trun- 

 cated ; the tongue is very small ; the skin of the 

 throat less dilatable ; the nostrils are like a small 

 line, which do not appear to be pierced ; the nail of 

 the middle toe is indented like a saw. 



The Cormorants, properly so called. 



Have the tail rounded with fourteen feathers. We 

 have one, 



The Connor ant. Pelicanus Carho, L. Enl. 927* 

 The young, Frisch. 187 and 8. Briss Zool. 



Of a black-brown, undulated with deep black on the 

 back, and mixed with white toward the end of the 

 bill, and the forepart of the neck. In the male, 

 round the throat and the cheeks are white, and the 

 occiput is also crested. As big as a goose. They 

 build in clefts of rocks or on trees, and lay three or 

 four eggs. 



The Little Cormorant. Pelic. GraculuSi Gm. Enl. 

 974, the young. 



Rather smaller, with deeper black, and more 

 bronzed, no white before the throat, the feathers 

 of the back more pointed ; is more scarce than the 

 common species. 



Tail, shorter, only equal to one-fifth of the length of 

 the body ; tail-feathers, twelve ; dorsal-feather, ovate ; 

 Length, 25 inches ; eyes, pale grey-brown. 



