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bigger than a small pea : quills not spotted : from 

 the middle of the back to the end of the tail, and 

 from between the legs to the vent, black, glossed 

 with green : tail three inches in length, rounded at 

 the end ; that and the quills plain black : legs deep 

 brown, or black." He adds, In some specimens 

 the beak is reddish, and the legs dull yellow : the 

 chin white, covered with feathers, and destitute of 

 crest : the feathers of the sides near the vent streaked 

 with white : thighs black : the stripe on each side of 

 the neck not so distinct ; and the black on the neck 

 less pure. I have likewise observed one with the 

 white on the sides of the neck not passing above half 

 ^che length of it:" Inhabits New Zealand, and builds 

 amongst the rocks. 



MAGELLANIC CORMORANT. 

 (Phalacrocorax Magellan icus.) 



Ph. niger macida pone oculos ahdomineque albis, hijpochondriis 

 alio striatis. 



Black Cormorant with a spot behind the eyes and the abdomen 



white, the flanks striped with white. 

 Pelecanus Magellanicus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1,576. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 8.89. 



Magellanic Shag. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6, (504 . Lath. Gen. Hist. 

 X. 430. 



The Magellanic Cormorant is thirty iiichcs in 

 length : its beak is black : the sides of the head and 



