Class II. COMMON CORVORANT. 



GENUS XXV. CORVORANT.* 



Bill strong, strait; and either hooked or slop- 

 ing. 



Nostrils, either totally wanting, or small, and 

 placed in a longitudinal furrow. 



Face naked. 



Gullet naked, capable of great distension. 



Toes, all four webbed. 



Pelecanus Carbo. P. cauda 



rotundata, corpore nigro, ca- 



pite subcristato. Lath. Ind. 



orn. 886. id. Syn. vi. 593. 



id. Sup. ii. 363. 

 Mergus Plinii lib. x. c, 33. 

 Le Cormorant. Belonav. l6l. 

 Corvus aquaticus, Carbo aqua- 



ticus. 136. 

 Phalacrocorax. Gesner av. 



683. 350. 

 Aldr. av. ili. 108. 

 The Cormorant. Wil. orn. 



329. 

 Raii Syn. av. 122. 



Pelecanus Carbo. Gm. Lin. 



573. 

 N. Com. Petr. iv. 423. 

 Le Cormoran. Brisson av. vl. 



511. tab. 45. The Male. 



Hist, d'ois. vlii. 310. PL 



Enl. 927. 

 Norvegis Skarv, Strand-Ravn. 



Danis Aalekrage. Islandis 



Skarfur. Bninnich, 120, 



121. 

 Scharb, or See-Rabe. Frisch, 



ii. 187. ' 



Scopoli, No. 98. 

 Br. Zoul. 159. Tab. I. 1. 



Arct. Zool. ii. SOg. 



1. Com- 

 mon-. 



* The learned Dr. Kay, or Caius, derives the word Corvo- 

 rant, from Corvus varans, from whence corruptly our word Cor' 

 morant. Caii opusc. 99. 



