<J0 - JAVAN CORMORANT. 



the chin are naked and reddish : the head and neck, 

 as far as the breast, the back, wings, and tail are 

 deep black ; the two former somewhat glossy : behind 

 each eye is a white spot : the under parts of the body 

 from the breast are also white : the sides are striped 

 with white : the thighs are black : the quills and tail 

 deep black : the last wedge-shaped, and four inches 

 in length : the legs pale brown. 



Inhabits Terra del Fuego and other southern coun- 

 tries, particularly Christmas Sound, where they breed 

 by hundreds : they are very tame, from their haunts 

 being seldom visited by mankind ; and are so little 

 alarmed at the report of a gun, that on being fired 

 at, though they were at first disturbed, they immedi- 

 ately returned to the nest : they fly very heavily. 



JAVAN CORMORANT. 



(Phalacrocorax Javauicus.) 



Ph. corpora nigro, capite Icevi. 

 Cormorant with the body black, the head smooth. 

 Carbo Javanicus. Horsfield, Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 197. 

 Javan Cormorant. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 419. 



Length sixteen inches : beak blackish; under man- 

 dible pale : body and wings black, with a hoary sil- 

 very gloss, and the feathers margined with black : 

 chin white : neck beneath variegated with black, 

 brown, and fuliginous : thighs black : belly marked 



