94 CARUNCULATED CORMORANT? 



This species also inhabits New Holland : it has the 

 upper part of the head, the neck, the body, the wings, 

 and the tail black : the eyebrows, the cheeks, the 

 throat, and all the under parts of a beautiful white. 

 It is rather less than a \Vild Goose. 



CARUNCULATED CORMORANT ? 

 (Phalacrocorax ? carunculatus.) 



Ph ? niger sabtus albus, facie nudd carunculata rubro, orbitis 



elevaiis cceruhis, fascia alarum alba. 

 Black Cormorant ? beneath white, with the face naked, caruncu- 



Iated and red, the orbits elevated and blue, the wings with a 



white band. 

 Pelecauus carunculatus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. !j~6. Lath. Lnd. 



Orn. 2. B89. 

 Carunculated Shag. Lath. Gen. Syn. G. 603. Lath. Gen. Hist. 



x. 429. 



About two feet in length : beak dusky : sides of the 

 head naked : between the beak and eye carunculated 

 and red ; the rest of the space ash-colour : the orbits 

 blue, and elevated : above the eye is a single large 

 tubercle : irides dirty brown : the crown of the head, 

 its sides, the hind part of the neck, and all the upper 

 parts of the plumage are black, a patch of white on 

 the wing-coverts excepted : the forehead, chin, and 

 all the under parts are white : the legs are flesh- 

 colour. 



Inhabits various countries situated near the an- 

 tarctic circle; and is particularly abundant in Staaten 



