154 PHALACROCOKACID^. 



General Distribution.— Ihe, Osprcy inhabits the greater 

 part of the eastern Hemisphere, except the Austro-Malayan 

 Islands and Australia, breeding in suitable localities through- 

 out Europe, Asia, and north Africa, southwards to the Canary 

 Islands, Ciipe Verde Group, and Sokotra. It visits tropical 

 and south-east Africa in winter. In America and Australia 

 it is represented by closely allied races. 



Order PELECANIFOEMES. 

 Family PHALACROCORACID^. 

 Genus PHALACROCORAX Brisson, Orn. vi. 1760, p. 511. 

 Type : P. carbo (Linn.). 



Phdlacrocorax, from 0aXaicp6s=bald-headecl, and K6pai=a, Eaven. 



Phalacrocorax carbo. Cormorant. 



Pelecanus carbo Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 175y, p. 133 : 



Sweden. 



Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 105 ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 1898, p. 340; 

 Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 361. 

 Carbo = a coal ; perhaps from the bird's sooty blackness. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Resident, common 

 round our coasts, but rather less numerous on the western 

 side of Scotland, the Outer Hebrides, and the Orkney and 

 Shetland Islands, than the Green Cormorant or Shag. It 

 visits inland waters and occasionally breeds on inland cliffs 

 and on trees. 



General Distribution. — The Cormorant inhabits the Atlantic 

 coasts of North America from Hudson Bay to Georgia, 

 central and southern Greenland, Iceland, the Faeroes, and 

 ranges thence across Europe and Asia to Kamchatka ; also 

 from the Mediterranean to India, the Malay Peninsula, Aus- 

 tralia, New Zealand, and the Chatham Islands. Several 

 racial forms have been recognised. It has been recorded 

 from southern Africa, probably erroneously. 



