TUFTED CORMORANT? 9-> 



Land, where they breed in large flocks, on the edge? 

 of the cliffs. 



TUFTED CORMORANT? 



(Phalacrocorax ? cirrhatus.) 



Ph ? niger subtus albus, xertxce cristato, liturd alarum alba, rosfro 



orbitis pedibusquejla-cis. 

 Black Cormorant ? beneath white, with the vertex crested, a white 



mark on the wings, the beak, orbits,, and legs yellow. 

 Pelecanus cirrhatus. Gmel. Syst. Xat. 1. 576. Lath. Ltd. Orn. 



2. S90. 

 Tufted Shag. Lath . Gen. Syn. 6. 606. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 43 1 . 



Inhabits New Zealand : length nearly three feet : 

 beak dusky yellow : naked space round the eye the 

 same : the head, the hind part of the neck, and all 

 the upper parts of the body, wings, and tail black : 

 the feathers on the occiput very long, forming a kind 

 of crest : on the win^-coverts is an oblong white 

 patch, and all the under parts of the plumage are 

 white : the tail is rounded and composed of fourteen 

 feathers : the legs are pale yellowish-brown. 



This bird appears to have great affinity to (if not 

 a variety by age of) the Carunculated Cormorant. 



