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TOWNSEND'S CORMORANT. 



"f Phalacrocorax Townsendi, %/lud. 



PLATE CCCCXVIIL— Male. 



Two specimens of the Cormorant here represented were sent to me by 

 Mr. Townsend, who procured them at Cape Disappointment in the begin- 

 ning of October, 1836. They are both marked as males, and agree nearly in 

 colour, but differ somewhat in the length of the bill, and in the extent of the 

 bare space at its base. One of them seems to be in its first plumage, the 

 other in that of the adult. Nothing, I believe, is known of the distribution 

 or habits of this species, which I have honoured with the name of its 

 discoverer. 



Phalacrocorax Townsendi, TownsencVs Cormorant, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 149. 



Male, 35; wing 12^; tail 6f. 



Cape Disappointment, Columbia river. Common. 



Male. 



Bill about the length of the head, rather slender, nearly straight, com- 

 pressed toward the end. Upper mandible with the dorsal line considerably 

 concave, until on the unguis, where it is decurved, the ridge convex, flattened 

 toward the end, separated from the sides by a narrow groove, the sides 

 convex, the edges sharp and nearly straight as far as the unguis, which is 

 decurved, convex above, acute, its tip extending nearly a quarter of an inch 

 beyond the level of the dorsal outline of the lower mandible. No external 

 nostrils. Lower mandible with the angle long and very narrow towards the 

 end, filled up by an extensible membrane, which extends to the level of the 

 angle of the mouth, the outline of the crura very slightly convex, that of the 

 terminal part descending and slightly convex, the sides convex, the edges 

 sharp and inflected, the tip compressed, with its marginal outline decurved. 



Head rather small, oblong. Neck long, and rather thick. Body full, 

 elongated, and depressed. Feet short, stout, placed far behind; tibia feather- 

 ed in its whole length; tarsus very short, strong, much compressed, covered 

 all round with angular scales, of which the anterior are larger, a series on 

 part of the inner side anteriorly, and another on the lower part of the outer, 



