PELICAN. 415 



Le Cormoran, Buf. viii. 310. pi. 26. PI. enl. 927. Hist. Prov. i. 341. 



II Corbo aquatico, Osb. Voy. ii. 35. Du Halde Chin. t. p. 162. 



Cormorant, or Corvorant, Gen. Syn. vi. 593. Id. Sup. 279. Id. Sup. ii. 363. Br. 



Zool.W. No. 291. Id.fol. 159. pi. 1. Id. 1812. ii. 281. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 509. 



Albin, ii. pi. 81. Coo/fc's last Voy. ii. 297. JFiM. Engl. 329. pi. 63. Bewick, ii. 



pi. p. 381—388. ieunra, vii. 263. Walcot, i. pi. 92. Pult. Dors. p. 21. Phil. 



Trans. 1807. 160. pi. x. f. 2, 3.— the stomach. Pit/. Mem. pi. p. 132. Orn. 



Diet. Sf Supp. 



SIZE of a Goose, but more slender ; length three feet, breadth 

 four feet two inches ; weight seven pounds. The bill dusky, three 

 inches aud a half long, the upper mandible hooked at the end, with 

 a furrow running longitudinally from the base to great part of its 

 length, but no appearance of nostrils ; the under mandible is covered 

 with a kind of yellowish green membrane, passing under the chin 

 and throat, forming there a kind of pouch ; and from thence extend- 

 ing backwards, and round the eye ; irides green ; top of the head and 

 part of the neck black, variegated with perpendicular white lines; 

 at the back part the feathers are longer than the rest, and form a 

 short crest; throat white, passing upwards behind the eyes; the 

 lower part of the neck, the breast, and all the under parts, greenish 

 black ; over the thighs a large white patch ; back, scapulars, and 

 wing coverts, brownish, reflecting purple and green in different 

 lights; each feather margined with black; the second quills like 

 the wing coverts ; the prime ones dusky black ; tail the same, much 

 rounded in shape, consisting of fourteen feathers; legs black, middle 

 claw serrated within. 



The female partakes of the same variety as the male, but in a 

 complete state is observed to be paler coloured. This species is 

 called by some Cole-Goose, and Skart; by others Brougie, and None.* 

 We find a remark in the Br. Zoology, that the chin of the male is 

 white, and in that sex is also a short, loose pendent crest at the hind 

 head, with a large patch of white feathers over the thighs ; but this, 

 perhaps, is not peculiar, since it has been ascertained, that a speci- 

 men with all these markings has proved, on dissection, to be a 



* Orn. Diet. 



