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SPOTTED CORMORANT. 



( Phalacrocorax punctatus.) 



Ph. cristatus niger, alls Jusco-cinereis nigro punctatis, lateribus 



colli linea utrinque alba. 

 Crested black Cormorant with the wings ashy-brown spotted with 



black, the sides of the neck with a white line on each side. 

 Pelecanus punctatus. Mus. Carls. Jas. 1. pi. 10. Gmcl. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 575. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 889. 

 Pelecanus nsevius. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 575. 

 Spotted Shag. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 602. pi. 10-4. Lath. Gen. 



Hid. x. 427. pi 182. 



A singular species, thus described by Latham 

 (who also figures it). " Size of the Shag (P//. Gra- 

 culus) : length two feet or more : beak three inches 

 long, of a pale bluish-lead colour ; in some yellow ; 

 the tip hooked : round the eyes bare, and of a dusky 

 red : the chin, throat, and fore part of the neck are 

 nearly black ; as are the forehead, hind part of the 

 neck, and beginning of the beak : just over the fore- 

 head arise some long feathers, forming a pointed 

 crest : and at the hind part of the head a second, not 

 unlike the first, but rather longer, some of the fea- 

 thers measuring an inch and a half: just over the eye 

 begins a line of white, which passes down on each 

 side of the neck quite to the wings, and growing 

 broader as it proceeds downward : the middle of the 

 back and the wings are of a brownish-ash colour, 

 each feather tipped at the end with a round spot 

 of black, largest on the wing-coverts, but .nowhere 



