85 



AFRICAN CORMORANT. 



( Phalacrocorax Afric:tiius.) 



Vn. Jusco-niger siibtus albo nigricanteqiie varius, guld alba, tec- 

 tricibus alarum ccerideo-griseis, margine apiceque nigris. 



Brown-black Cormorant beneath white varied with dusky, with 

 the throat A^^hite, the wing-coverts blue-grey, the margins and 

 tips black. 



Pelecanus Africanus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 577. Lath, Ind. Orn. 

 2. 890. 



African Shag. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 606. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 

 422. 



Length twenty inches : beak dirty yellowish-white ; 

 upper mandible brown-black : middle of the back and 

 rump glossy black : scapulars and wing-coverts blue- 

 grey, each feather margined and tipped with black ; 

 the three first greater quills pale brown, inclining to 

 cinereous, the rest brown black : secondaries as long 

 as the quills, dusky-black, edged with brown : chin 

 white : fore part of the neck mottled dusky-white 

 and black: belly the same, with a mixture of brown : 

 tail, consisting of twelve feathers, wedge-shaped ; the 

 two middle feathers seven inches long, the outermost 

 three inches and a half ; the four middle ones and 

 outer on each side pale brown, the others black : legs 

 black. Inhabits Africa. 



