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DWARF CORMORANT. 



(Phalacrocorax pygmseus.) 



Ph. ater, pectore mrescente, orbitis atomis albis sparsis, tectri- 

 cibus alarum medio Juscis^ collo pectore lateribusque punctis 

 spar sis niveis. 



Dark Cormorant with the breast greenish, the orbits sprinkled 

 with white spots, the middle of the wing-coverts brown, the 

 neck, breast, and sides sprinkled with snow-white spots. 



Pelecanus pygmaeus. Pall, reise. 2. 712. pi. G. Gmel. Syst, 

 Nat. 1. 574. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 890. 



Le Cormoran pigme^ Temm. man. d'Orn. 591. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 

 901. 



Dwarf Shag. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 607. Lath. Gen. Hist^ x. 

 431. 



Pelecanus pygmseus. /3. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 890. 



Length eighteen inches : the beak is brown varied 

 with yellowish : space round the eyes and small gut- 

 tural sac yellowish : all the plumage is glossy black 

 and green : the feathers on the top of the back and 

 of the wings are edged with a very brilliant black 

 border : the legs are blackish brown. The young 

 have the top of the head and all the nape of a blackish- 

 brown : the throat white : the fore part of the neck 

 clear brown, varied with whitish : the middle of the 

 belly and the vent are whitish -yellow : the sides and 

 thighs are brown : the feathers on the top of the 

 back and of the wings are ashy-brown, all terminated 

 by a large spot of brilliant glossy black : the quills and 

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