TUFTED CORMORANT? 9^ 



Land, where they breed in large flocks, on the edges 

 of the cliffs. 



TUFTED CORMORANT? - 



(Phalacrocorax? cirrhatus.) 



Ph ? niger subtus albus, vertice cristato, liturd alarum alba, rostro 



orbitis pedihisque Jlavis. 

 Black Cormorant ? beneath white^ with the vertex crested, a white 



mark on the wings, the beak, orbits, and legs yellow. 

 Pelecanus cirrhatus. Gmel. Syst. Nat, 1. 576. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 890. 



Tufted Shag. Lath. Gen, Si/n. 6.606. Lath. Gen, Hist, x. 43 1. 



Inhabits New Zealand : length nearly three feet : 

 beak dusky yellow : naked space round the eye the 

 same : the head, the hind part of the neck, and all 

 the upper parts of the body, wings, and tail black : 

 the feathers on the occiput very long, forming a kind 

 of crest : on the wing-coverts is an oblong white 

 patch, and all the under parts of the plumage are 

 white : the tail is rounded and composed of fourteen 

 feathers : the legs are pale yellowish-brown. 



This bird appears to have great affinity to (if not 

 a variety by age of) the Carunculated Cormorant, 



