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AFRICAN CORMORANT. 

 ( Phalacrocorax Africanus.) 



Ph. Jusco-niger subtus albo nigricanteque varim, guld alba, tec- 



tricibus alarum cceruleo-griscis, margine apiceque nigris. 

 Brown-black Cormorant beneath white varied with dusky, with 



the throat white, the wing-coverts blue-grey, the margins and 



tips black. 

 Pelecanus Africanus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.577 '. Lath. Lnd, Orn. 



2. 890. 

 African Shag. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6- 606. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 



422. 



Length twenty inches : beak dirty yellowish-white ; 

 upper mandible brown-black : middle of the back and 

 rump glossy black : scapulars and wing-coverts blue- 

 grey, each feather margined and tipped with black ; 

 the three first greater quills pale brown, inclining to 

 cinereous, the rest brown black : secondaries as long 

 as the quills, dusky-black, edged with brown : chin 

 white : fore part of the neck mottled dusky-white 

 and black : belly the same, with a mixture of brown : 

 tail, consisting of twelve feathers, wedge-shaped j the 

 two middle feathers seven inches long, the outermost 

 three inches and a half; the four middle ones and 

 outer on each side pale brown, the others black : legs 

 black. Inhabits Africa. 



