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SPOTTED CORMORANT. 



(Phalacrocorax punctatus.) 



Ph. cristatiis niger, alis Jusco-cinereis nigro pundatis, laterihus 



colli liiiea utrinque alhd. 

 Crested black Cormorant with the wings ashy-brown spotted with 



black, the sides of the neck with a white line on each side. 

 Pelecanus punctatus. Mus. Carls, fas. ]. pi. 10. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 575. Laih. Ind. Orn. 2. 889. 

 Pelecanus neevius. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 575. 

 Spotted Shag. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 602. pi. 104. Lath. Gen. 



Hist. X. 427.pl 182. 



A SINGULAR Species, thus described by Latham 

 (who also figures it). " Size of the Shag (P//. Gra- 

 cuius) : length two feet or more : beak three inches 

 long, of a pale bluish-lead colour ; in some yellow ; 

 the tip hooked : round the eyes bare, and of a dusky 

 red: the chin, throat, and /ore part of the neck are 

 nearly black ; as are the forehead, hind part of the 

 neck, and beginning of the beak : just over the fore- 

 head arise some long feathers, forming a pointed 

 crest : and at the hind part of the head a second, not 

 unlike the first, but rather longer, some of the fea- 

 thers measuring an inch and a half : just over the eye 

 begins a line of white, which passes down on each 

 side of the neck quite to the wings, and growing 

 broader as it proceeds' downward : the middle of the 

 back and the wings are of a brownish-ash colour, 

 each feather tipped at the end with a round spot 

 of black, largest on the wing-coverts, but nowhere 



