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418. Phalacrocorax Floridanus, Jud. — Florida Cormorant. 
In summer, with elongated plumage behind each eye: bare space on 
head and gular sac, rich orange ; plumage, greenish black, glossed with 
green ; tail, brownish black. Male, 21, 465. Habitat, Florida, Nests in 
mangrove trees. Eggs, four, 2} inches by 1%, of a light bluish green 
color, concealed by a coating of calcareous matter. 
Phalacrocorax Floridanus, 4wd. iii. 387 ; v. 632; Syn. p. 303; plate 251. 
419. Phalacrocorax Townsendi, ud. — Townsend’s Cormorant. 
Plumage of neck and sides interspersed with linear white feathers ; 
gular sac and bare skin on forehead, bright orange; upper part of head 
and hind neck, dusky, tinged with green; hind part of back, greenish 
black ; rest of upper parts, brownish gray; feathers, edged with black ; 
outer primaries and tail-feathers, black; sides of head, fore part of neck 
and breast, light yellowish brown; middle of neck, darker; sides, abdo- 
men, and tibial feathers, shaded into brownish black, tinged with green. 
Male, 35. Habitat, Columbia River. 
Phalacrocorax Townsendi, @ud. v. 149; plate 412; Syn. p. 304. 
420. Phalacrocorax resplendens, Jud.— Violet-green Cormorant. 
Gular sac and bare skin on head, bright orange ; plumage, deep green, 
changing, according to the light, into black and: purple; white piliform 
feathers, terminated by filaments along the sides of neck and body; quills 
and tail-feathers, brownish black and less glossy. Female, 27. Habitat, 
Columbia River. 
Phalacrocorax resplendens, Aud. v. 148; plate 422; Syn. p. 304. 
GENUS I.—PLOTUS,, Linn. —ANHINGA. 
421. Plotus Anhinga, Zinn.— American Anhinga, Wilson, pp. 644 
and 647. . 
Nests in bushes and trees. Eggs, four, 23 inches by 1}, of a uniform 
whitish color. 
Plotus Aubioga, Bonap. Syn. p. 411. Nutt. ii. 507. Aud. iv. 136; plate 316; Syn. 
p. 306. 
GENUS HI.—TACHYPETES, Vieill. —FRIGATE PELICAN. 
422. Tachypetes Aquilus, Zinn. — Frigate Bird. 
Bill, purplish blue, white in the middle ; gular sac, orange ; bare skin 
round eye, blue; feet, carmine above, orange beneath ; plumage, brown 
ish black; head, neck, back, breast, and sides, with green and purple 
reflections ; wings, tinged with green. Adult, 41, &6. Habitat, through 
out the Gulf of Mexico. Nests in trees. Eggs, three, 2% inches by 2, 
greenish white. 
GENUS IV.—PELECANUS, Linn. — PELICAN. 
423. Pelecanus Americanus.— American White Pelican. 
Plumage, white ; elongated feathers on breast, pale yellow; alula, pri- 
mary, and outer secondaries, black, with white shafis; inner ten secon- 
daries white. Male, 613, 103; bill, 133. Habitat, from Texas to South 
Carolina. 
Pelecanus Americanus, 4ud. iv. 88; plate 311; Syn. p. 309, 
