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The Cormorant] Corvus aqnaticus. 



Numb. LXXXI. 



TTS Weight was three Pounds and three Ounces; the Length, frons 

 "■• the Point of the Bill to the End of the Tail, two foot four Inches ; 

 Breadth three Foot fix Inches: in Bignefs it is not much inferiour to a 

 Goofe; it is of a dusky obfcure brown Colour all over the Body, ex- 

 cepting under the Chin, and round the Eyes it is of a fordid white in- 

 clining to a yellow : the Bill is like that of the Shag:, three Inches and 

 a half long, hooked at the End, of a redifh yellow ; the upper Mandible 

 having fharpe Edges, the Sides of the lower Mandible comprefTed and 

 broad ; the Tongue very fmall hardly to be perceived ; the Eyes fituate 

 nearer the Aperture of the Mouth than in moft other Birds, having ci- 

 nereous Circles about the Pupil. 



The Tail is compofed of fourteen ftiff hard Feathers five Inches and 

 a half long, when fpread, ending in a round Circumference, being con- 

 cave on the under fide, not being in any Part covered with Feathers 

 either above or beneath : the Legs are ftrong, thick, but very fhort, 

 broad, and flat; (at leaft in the Young ones) the Feet and Claws 

 black, covered with a Skin, not divided into perfect Scales, but can- 

 cellated. It hath four Toes in each foot all webbed together by a broad 

 black Membrane, like the ElKs. 



The Stomach is membranaceous, but its upper Part thick and glan- 

 dulous 3 within were Bones of Fifiies which it had devoured, and one 

 Fifii entire, which was a fmall Codfifi:i; alfo many little long blackife 

 Worms of the Figure of Earth -Worms, Mr. Willoughby alfo found the 

 like Worms in the Stomach of a Young one, which he got at Sevenhuys 

 in Hollafidj where many of this Kind build upon Trees: the Guts 

 were long having many Revolutions; the blind Guts very fmall, the 

 Liver large divided into two Lobes, the right one the bigger. It is 

 infefled v/ith Lice of a pale red Colour having a great black Spot in the 

 middle of their Backs, 



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