COMMON CORMORANT. 



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Grand Cormoran, Temm. man. d'Orn. 1. 58/. Id. 2 Edit, ii. 

 894. 



Cormorant, or Corvorant. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 291. Albin. 

 Birds, 2. 81. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 59.3. Lew. Brit. Birds, 

 6. pi. 263. Wale. Si/n. I. pi. 92. Mont. Orn. Bid. 1. and 

 Supp. Bew. Brit. Birds, 2. 381. Leach, Zool. Misc. 3. 

 Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 415. 



Crested Cormorant. Beiv. Brit. Birds, 2. 388. 



Length about thirty inches : during the winter 

 the beak is a blackish-ash : the naked space round 

 the eyes is greenish-yellow : the pouch yellowish : the 

 irides green : under the throat is a broad white or 

 whitish collar, the extremities of which reach just 

 beneath the eyes : the top of the head, neck, breast, 

 all the under parts, and the rump, are black glossed 

 with green : on the neck are several small whitish 

 stripes : the feathers on the top of the back and the 

 wings are ashy-brown or bronze-colour in the middle, 

 edged by a broad band of black, glossed with green : 

 the quills and tail-feathers are black : the legs are 

 black. In the summer the occiput and part of the 

 nape become ornamented with long feathers, which 

 form a kind of crest glossed with deep green : the 

 colour on the throat becomes of a pure white : on 

 the top of the head, and on great part of the neck, 

 and on the thighs, are several shaded, long, silky 

 feathers, of a pure white colour : the rest of the plu- 

 mage resembles that of the winter. The young of 

 the year have the top of the head, the nape, and the 

 back of a deep brown, slightly glossed with green : 

 the collar is of an ashy- white : the fore part of the 

 neck and all the under parts are grey-brown, varied 



