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PALMIPEDES. 



Famihj PELECANID^. (Bonaparte. J 



Genus Carbo. f Meyer and Wolff.) 



Generic Characters. — Bill moderate, or long, straight, and 

 compressed, culmen rounded; upper mandible much curved 

 near the point, hooked; inferior mandible compressed; the 

 base connected with a membrane which extends to the throat. 

 Pace and throat naked; nostrils basal, linear, hid. Legs 

 strong, short, much drawn into the abdomen; three toes in 

 front and one behind, the hind toe articulated to the inner 

 surface of the tarsus, all united by a membrane; claw of the 

 middle toe serrated on the inner edge. "Wings of moderate 

 length; the first feather slightly shorter than the second, 

 which is tlie longest. 



LITTLE COEMOEANT. 



Carho pygmoius. 



Carho pygmcBus, 

 Pelecanus fygmceus, 

 Mydrocorax pygmceus, 

 Phalacrocorax pygmmis, 

 Cormoranus fygmaus, 



Cormoran pygmee, 

 Zwergscliarhe, 

 Dwarf SJiag, 



Temminck; Man., 1820. 

 Pallas. 



ViEILLOT. 

 BONAPAETE. 



DxjBOTS; Ois. de la Belgique, 



part 111, pi. 230. 

 Of the French. 

 Of the Gebmaks. 

 Latham. 



