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PHALACROCORAX PYGMJIUS. 



(PYGMY CORMORANT.) 



Pelecanus pygmceus, Pall. Reise, ii. p. 712, Anhang (1773). 



Phalacrocorax pygmceus, Pall. Zool. Rosso-As. ii. p. 300 (1811). 



Carlo pygmceus (Pall.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 591 (1815). 



Hydrocorax pygmceus (Pall.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet. viii. p. 88 (1817). 



Hydrocorax niger, Vieill. torn. cit. p. 8S (1817). 



Carlo javanicus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 197 (1822). 



Carlo melanognathus, Brandt, Bull. Ac. Sc. St.-Petersb. iii. p. 57 (1838). 



Halieus pygmceus (Pall.), J. F. Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. xi. p. 112 (1842). 



Gracuhts pygmceus (Pall.), G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 667(1849). 



Carlo (Phalacrocorax) niepcii, Malh. Faun. Orn. Alg. p. 38 (1855). 



Microcarbo pygmceus (Pall.), Bp. Cat. Parzud. p. 10 (1856). 



Haliceus melanognathus (Brandt), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. p. 179 (1857). 



Haliceus pygmceus (Pall.), Bp. ut supra (1857). 



"Haliceus algeriensis, Reich." Bp. ut supra (1857). 



Haliceus javanicus (Horsf.), Bp. ut supra (1857). 



Haliceus niger (Vieill.), Bp. ut supra (1857). 



Cormoran pygmee, French; Marangone minore, Italian; Zwerg-Scharle, German. 



Figurce notaliles. 

 Pall. op. cit. ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl, taf. 281 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 409. 



Ad. pileo, nucha, collo postico et colli lateribus rufescenti-brunneis, fronte saturatiore et viridi-nigro lavata : 

 dorso centraliter, scapularibus, tectricibus alarum et secimdariis intimis nigro-griseis, nigro marginatis : 

 corpore reliquo supra, gula centraliter et corpore subtiis nitide nigris vix viridi nitentibus et albo 

 guttatis : rostro nigro : hide fusca : pedibus nigris. 



Juv. pileo, nucha et collo postico sordide brunneis vix rufescenti tiactis : corpore supra griseo-nigricante, 

 plumis centraliter pallidioribus et brunneo marginatis : uropygio nigro vix viridi tincto : Cauda et 

 alis ut in adulto sed sordidioribus : mento albo : gula, gutture et pectore brunneis, plumis albido 

 apicatis, corpore reliquo subtiis albido et pallide brunneo immixto, hypochondriis et subcaudalibus 

 nigris : rostro flavido : hide pallide brunnea : pedibus nigricantibus. 



Adult in spring plumage (Hungary). Crown, nape, and hind neck, including the sides of the neck, glossy 

 reddish brown, the forehead much darker, and tinged with greenish black ; centre of the back, 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, and inner secondaries blackish grey, margined round the feather with glossy 

 black ; wings and tail black ; fore part of the throat from about the centre downwards, the entire 

 underparts, and the rest of the upper parts not above described glossy black with a bottle-green tinge, 

 marked with pure white spots, these spots being composed of peculiar feathers consisting of a fine bare 



