Crass II, COMMON CORVORANT. 
GENUS XXV.. CORVORANT.* 
e 
BIxt strong, strait; and either hooked or slop- 
ing. 
NostTRILs, either totally wanting, or small, and 
7 placed in a longitudinal furrow. 
Face naked. 
Gutter naked, capable of great distension. 
Toss, all four webbed. 
Pelecanus Carbo. P. 
rotundata, corpore nigro, ca- 
pite subcristato. Lath. Ind. 
orn. 886. ad. Syn. vi. 593. 
id. Sup. ii. 363. 
Mergus Plinii lib. x. c. 33. 
Le Cormorant. Belon av. 161. 
Corvus aquaticus, Carbo aqua- 
ticus. 136. 
cauda 
Phalacrocorax. Gesner av. 
683. 350. 
Aldr. av. iii. 108. 
The Cormorant. Wil. orn. 
320. 
Rati Syn. av. 122. 
Pelecanus Carbo. Gm. Lin. 
573. 
N. Com. Petr. iv. 423. 
Le Cormoran. Brisson av. vi. 
541. fab. 45. The Male. 
Fist. Gots. viii. 310. Pl. 
Eni. 927. 
Norvegis Skarv, Strand-Ravn. 
Danis Aalekrage. Islandis 
Skarfur. 120, 
121. 
Scharb, or See-Rabe. Frisch, 
li. 187. 
Scopoli, No. 98. 
Br, Zool: ¥5Q.) Labs: 1.1. 
Arct. Zool. ii. 309. 
Brunnich, 
* The learned Dr. Kay, or Caius, derives the word Corvo- 
vant, from Corvus vorans, from’ whence corruptly our word Cor- 
morant. 
Cait opusc. 99. 
1. Com- 
MON. 
