LITTLE COEMOBANT. Ul 



PALMIPEDES. 



Family PELECANID^. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Carbo. f Meyer and Wolff.) 



Generic Characters. — Bill moderate, or long, straight, and compressed, 

 culmen rounded; upper mandible much curved near the point, hooked; 

 inferior mandible compressed; the base connected with a membrane which 

 extends to the throat. Face and throat naked; nostrils basal, linear, hid. 

 Legs strong, short, much drawn into the abdomen ; three toes in front and 

 one behind, the hind toe articulated to the inner surface of the tarsus, all 

 united by a membrane; claw of the middle toe serrated on the inner edge. 

 Wings of moderate length ; the first feather slightly shorter than the second, 

 which is the longest. 



LITTLE CORMORANT. 



Carho pygmmus. 



Carbo pygmcBus, Temminck; Man., 1820. 



Pelecanus pygvKEus, Pallas. 



Hydrocorax pygmceus, Vieillot. 



Phalaa'ocorax pygmceus, Bonaparte. 



Connoranus pygmaus, Dubois; Ois. de la Belgique, part iii, 



pi. 230. 



Cormorati pygmee, Of the French. 



Ztvergscharhe, Of the Germans. 



Dwarf Shag, • Latham. 



Specific Characters.— E&3k shorter than the head, and slender; tail long, 

 the feathers straight and stiff. Length twenty inches and a half; from carpal 

 joint to tip seven inches and a half; beak from forehead one inch and 

 three tenths; beak from rictus two inches; tarsus one inch; middle toe 

 and claw two inches and a half; tail six inches, and, in the specimen 

 figured, only ten quills, 



