BROWN-NECKED CORMORANT. 



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with narrow cinereous bands. Inhabits Java ; called 

 Pechuck. 



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BROWN-NECKED CORMORANT. 



( Phalacrocorax fuscicollis.) 



Ph. capite cristato, corpore nigro nitentej lateribus colli riifo' 

 fmcis. 



Cormorant with the head crested, the body of a glossy black, the 



sides of the neck red -brown. 

 Brown-necked Shag. Lath, Gen. Hist. x. 425. 



A SPECIES described by Dr. Latham in the new 

 edition of his Synopsis, or General History of Birds ; 

 he says — " This is in shape much like the Shag : length 

 twenty-one inches and a half: beak nearly three inches^ 

 cinereous, the under mandible naked to the base : 

 orbits naked, brown ; irides very dark : front and lore 

 black, marked with white irregular spots : the feathers 

 of the front erect, and form a kind of short crest : 

 crown and upper part of the neck black, mixed with 

 brown : sides of the neck rufous-brown : the rest of 

 the plumage black, with a degree of gloss : scapu- 

 lars and upper wing-coverts sharp-pointed : tail five 

 inches and a half, rounded at the end, and consisting 

 of twelve feathers, and the wings reach to the be- 

 ginning of it : legs black. Inhabits Bengal, where 

 it is not uncommon : is there called Pan Cowee : by 

 the Mussulmen, Poukoul : is seen swimming all the 

 day on the water, and roosts at night on the trees." 



