310 STEGANOPODBS. 



distinguished hy the difference in the shape of the bare space on the 

 throat: in Temrainck's Cormorant the margin of the feathering 

 extends from the gape at a right angle to the line of the commissure, 

 and meets the margin of the other side at an acute angle, considerably 

 in front of the gape (Seebohm, Ibis, 1885, p. 270). 



195. PHALACROCORAX PELAGICUS. 



(RESPLENDENT SHAG.) 



Phalaa-ocorax pelagians, Pallas, Zoogr. Eosso-Asiat. ii. p. 303 (1826). 



Head of Phalaa'ocorax pelagicus. f natural size. 



The Shags have only ten tail-feathers, and the feathers of the back 

 and scapulars are not margined with black. The Resplendent Shag 

 has two crests when adult, and the forehead is always feathered to 

 the base of the bill. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 84 

 (adult), pi. 84 B (young) ; misnamed Carlo bicristatus. 



The Resplendent Shag breeds on the Kurile Islands, and is com- 

 mon on the coast of Yezzo during summer (Whitely, Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 211) and probably in winter also. Great numbers visit Tokio 

 Bay in winter, but leave for the north in the spring. I have an 

 example collected by Mr. Snow on the Kurile Islands, and there are 

 two examples in the Swinhoe collection from Hakodadi, one of them 

 collected by Captain Blakiston in winter (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 164) . 

 I have also two examples from Hakodadi collected by Mr. Henson 



