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PALMIPEDES. 



Family PELECANID^. (Bonaparte.J 



Genus Carbo. f Meyer and Wolff.) 



Generic Characters. — Bill moderate, or long, straiglat, and 

 compressed, culmen rounded; upper mandible much curved 

 near the point, hooked; inferior mandible compressed; the 

 base connected with a membi'ane which extends to the throat. 

 Face and throat naked; nostrils basal, linear, hid. Legs 

 strong, short, much drawn into the abdomen; three toes in 

 front and one behind, the hind toe articulated to the inner 

 surface of the tarsus, all united by a membrane; claw of the 

 middle toe serrated on the inner edge. Wings of moderate 

 length; the first feather slightly shorter than the second, 

 which is the longest. 



LITTLE CORMORANT. 



Carho pygmaus. 



Carbo fygmceus, 

 Felecanus fygmceus, 

 Sydrocorax pygmceus, 

 Phalacrocorax pygmceus, 

 Cormoranus pygmceus, 



Cormoran pygmee, 

 Zwergscliarhe, ' 

 Dwarf Shag, 



Temminck; Man., 1820. 

 Pallas. 



ViEILLOT. 

 BoNAPAETE. 



Dubois; Ois. de la Belgique, 



part 111, pi. 230. 

 Of the Fbench. 

 Of the Germans. 

 Latham. 



