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the wing coverts ; the prime quills dufky black : the tail the 

 fame, much rounded in fhape, and confifts of fourteen feathers : 

 legs black. 



We find a remark in the Britijh Zoology, that the chin of the 

 male is white, and in tffat fex there is alfo a fhort, loofe, pendent 

 creft at the hind head, with a large patch of white feathers over 

 the thighs ; but this perhaps is not peculiar, fince we have been 

 informed, that a fpecimen with all the laft-named markings has 

 proved, on diffection, to be a. female*. May we not therefore, with 

 fome propriety, rather conclude that the above diftinctions are 

 thofe cf the birds in their higheft adult ftate; and that the various 

 other differences in plumage are thofe of the younger frages ? We 

 have obferved many birds called Corvorants, but none had the 

 white on the thighs, except thofe with the Jlreaked heads : in the 

 others, moft of them had white, more or lefs, under the chin and 

 fides of the head beneath the eyes ; many of them with fome por- 

 tion of white on the bread and belly, even to the laft being wholly 

 white, though in others the under parts were all black; and in 

 one fpecimen, in the Leverian Collection, the middle of the hind 

 head and nape had a narrow feries of long feathers ferving as a 

 creft. 



Flace and This fpecies is found in England, and in many places of the old 



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continent ; on the mores or the Cafpian Sea is feen fometimes in 



immenfe flocks; frequent in the Lake Baikal; is mentioned as 

 inhabiting the Cape of Good Hope ; alfo common in China, the 

 Philippine. IJles, New Holland, New Zealand, and other parts. 

 It is" found in many parts of the continent of America, being 

 met with in Hudfon's Bay, New York, and from thence as low at 



* Mr. TunjtalU 



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