4.76 CORVORANT. Clafs IL 



white: the irides whitifhj the legs dufky. The fe- 

 male is of a brovvnidi afTi-color, fpotted with black 5 

 and has a green fpot on the wing like the male. 



By thedefcription Mr .Willoughby has left of the fum~ 

 werTealp. %yB, we fufpeclthat it differs not in the fpe- 

 cies from the common kind, only infex. Linnaus hath, 

 placed it among the birds of his country * ; but leaves 

 a blank in the place of its refidence-, and hath evi- 

 dently copied Mr. Willoughby^ s, imperfect defcription 

 of inland to confirm our fufpicion that he has fol- 

 lowed the error of our countryman, we obferved 

 that a bird fent us from the Baltic fea, under the title, 

 of anas circia^ the fummer Teal of Unnaus 5 was no* 

 other than the female of our Teal. 



Genus XVIII. The CORVORANT f. 



I. The CORVORANT. T'he Female. 



Le Cormorant. Behnav. 161. Pelecanus Carbo. Lin.fyJ}.z\6, 



Corvus aquaticus,Carba aquati- N. Com. Pctr. iv. 423. 



cus. 136. Le Cormoran. Brijfon av. v'u 



phalacrocorax. Gefner av. 683.- 511. tab. 45. The Male. 



350. Noyvegis Skarv, Strand-Ravru 



AUr. a<v. iii. 108. /)«»z'.f Aalekrage. IjlandisSkax- 



TheConuorant. Wil. orn. 329. fur. Brumzicb. 120, 121. 



Raiijyn»a*u. 122. Br. Zoo/, jrcj. 



Defer. fT\H I S fpecies weighs four pounds. The length 



JL is thirty-two inches ; the breadth near four feet 



'The bill dufky, three inches and a half long, and 



* Fauna Suecka,fp. I 30. 



t The learned Dr. Kay, or Gains, derives the word Coworant-. 

 from Cor-vru ruoransy from whence corruptly our word Cormorant. 

 . . . ' , 99. 



s deftituts- 



