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DWARF CORMORANT. 



(Phalacroeorax pygmaeus.) 



Ph. ater, pectore virescente, orbitis atomis albis sparsis, tectri- 



cibus alarum medio fuscis, collo pectore lateribusque pundis 



sparsis niveis. 

 Dark Cormorant with the breast greenish, the orbits sprinkled 



with white spots, the middle of the wing-coverts brown, the 



neck, breast, and sides sprinkled with snow-white spots. 

 Pelecanus pygmaeus. Pall, reise. 2. 712. pi. G. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. I. 574. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 890. 

 Le Cormoran pigme. Tennn. man. d'Orn. 591. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 



901. 

 Dwarf Shag. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 607. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 



431. 

 Pelecauus pygmaeus. |8. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. S90. 



Length eighteen inches : the beak is brown varied 

 with yellowish : space round the eyes and small gut- 

 tural sac yellowish : all the plumage is glossy black 

 and green : the feathers on the top of the back and 

 of the wings are edged with a very brilliant black 

 border : the legs are blackish brown. The young 

 have the top of the head and all the nape of a blackish- 

 brown : the throat white : the fore part of the neck 

 clear brown, varied with whitish : the middle of the 

 belly and the vent are whitish-yellow : the sides and 

 thighs are brown : the feathers on the top of the 

 back and of the wings are ashy-brown, all terminated 

 by a large spot of brilliant glossy black : the quills and 



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