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CORVORANT. 



Class II. 



XLVIII. 

 CORVO- 

 RANT*. 



BILL ftrong, ftrait; end either hooked or Hoping. 

 NOSTRILS, either totally wanting, or fmall, and 



placed in a longitudinal furrow. 

 FACE naked. 



GULLET naked, capable of great diitenfion. 

 TOES, all four webbed. 



zgi. Corvo- Mergus Plinii lib. x. c. 33. 



rant. Le Cormorant. Be/on a-v. 161. 



Corvus aquaticus, Carbo a- 



quaticus. 136. 

 Phalacrocorax. Gefner a-j. 



683. 350. 

 Aldr. a<v. III. 108. 

 The Cormorant. W'ri. orn. 



3 2 ?- 

 Raii Jyn. av. 122. 

 Pelecanus Carbo. Lin. jyfi. 



216. 



N. Com. Petr. IV. 423. 

 Le Cormoran. Brijjon av. 



VI. 511. tab. 45. The 



Male. 

 Norvegis Skarv, Strand- Ravn. 



Danis Aalekrage. IJlandis 



Skarfur. Brunnich, 1 20, 



121. 

 Scliarb, or See-Rabe. Frifcb, 



II. 187. . 

 Br. Zool. 159. Scopoli, No. 



93. 



Descrip, 



I 



HAVE weighed a bird of this fpecies that 

 exceeded feven pounds : the length three ittt 

 four: the extent four feet two: the bill dufky, 

 five inches long, deftitute ofnoftrils; the bafe of 

 the lower mandible is covered with a naked yel- 

 low ifh (kin, that extends under the chin, and forms 

 a fort of pouch : a loofe ikin of the fame color 



* The learned Dr. Kay, or Caius, derives the word Cor- 

 <vorant, from Corvus <vorans t from whence corruptly our word 

 Cormorant. Caii opufc. gg. 



reaches 



