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JAVAN CORMORANT. 



the chill are naked and reddish : [the head and neck, 

 as far as the breast, the back, wings, and tail are 

 deep black j the two former somewhat glossy : behind 

 each eye is a white spot : the under parts of the body 

 from the breast are also white : the sides are striped 

 with white : the thighs are black : the quills and tail 

 deep black : the last wedge-shaped, and four inches 

 in length : the legs pale brown. 



Inhabits Terra del Fiiego and other southern coun- 

 tries, particularly Christmas Sound, where they breed 

 by hundreds : they are very tame, from their haunts 

 being seldom visited by mankind ; and are so little 

 alarmed at the report of a gun, that on being fired 

 at, though they were at first disturbed, they immedi* 

 ately returned to the nest : they fly very heavily. 



JAVAN CORMORANT. 



(Phalacrocorax Javanicus.) 



Ph. corpora nigroy capite Icevi, 

 Cormorant with the body black, the head smooth. 

 Carbo Javanicus. Horsfield, Linn. Trans, xiii. ^9. 197« 

 Javan Cormorant. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 419. 



Length sixteen inches : beak blackish; under man- 

 dible pale : body and wings black, with a hoary sil- 

 very gloss, and the feathers margined with black : 

 chin white : neck beneath variegated with black, 

 brown, and fuliginous : thighs black : belly marked 



