RED-FACED CORMORANT. 



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Length two feet ten inches : base of the beak 

 green, tip black : naked space round the eyes red- 

 dish : head and neck dark reddish-green : on the 

 middle of the neck in front are a few slender white 

 feathers, thinly interspersed amongst the others, and 

 several of them nearly three inches in length : the 

 quills are black : the back and wings are dusky glossy 

 black ; the back also glossed with green and varied 

 with a few slender white feathers : the belly is entirely 

 black : on each side of the rump is a patch of white 

 feathers : tail consisting of twelve feathers : legs black. 



Inhabits Kamtschatka, building its nest on the 

 rocks and crags of the sea-coast : the female lays 

 three or four ill-tasted greenish eggs. It flies well, 

 and with rapidity, but rises with difficulty from the 

 ground. It eats voraciously, feeding upon fish, which 

 it swallows whole : after a meal it is very drowsy and 

 not easily roused ; and being also very stupid, it will 

 allow itself to be netted without making the slightest 

 resistance. 



