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CORMORANT. 
scimitar-shaped, more high than broad, compressed, and straight ; the 
upper mandible bent at the point ; nostrils in the base of the bill, 
linear, and lateral, pierced diagonally, and partly covered by a feathered 
membrane ; wings long and pointed, having the first quill shorter than 
the second, which is the longest in the wing ; shank shorter than the 
middle toe ; feet having three toes before and one behind ; toes entirely 
divided.* 
CORBIE. — A name for the Crow. 
CORMORANT {Carho Cormoranus, Meyer.) 
Great Corvorant, Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. p. 381. — Crested Corvorant, Ib. 2.p. 388. 
Pelicanus Corbo, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 216. 3. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 573. — Ind. Orn. 
2. p. 886. 14. — Corvus aquaticus, Raii, Syn. p. 122. A. 3. — Will. p. 248. t. 63. 
— Phalacrocorax, Briss. 6. p. 511. 1. t. 45. — Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 495. — Flem.Br. 
Anim. p. 117. — Grand Cormorant, Temm. 2. p. 894. — Le Cormoran, Btiff. 8. 
p. 310. t. 26. — Cormorant, Will. (Angl.) p. 329. t. 63. — Albin, 2. t. 81. — • 
Corvorant, Br. Zool. 2. No. 291. — lb. fol. 159. t. I. 1. — Lath. Syn. 6. p. 593. 
13. — Lewin’s Br. Birds, 7. t. 263. — Wale. Syn. 1. t. 92. — Pult. Cat. Dorset. 
p. 21. 
Provincial, — Great Black Corvorant. Cole Goose. Skart. Green 
Cormorant. Brougie. Norie. 
Different opinions still exist amongst naturalists with respect to the 
crested cormorant and crested shag. Some maintaining that they 
are distinct from the common species, while others consider them 
as varieties only. We are enabled to prove, beyond all dispute, 
from incontrovertible facts, that the crested cormorant is no other 
than a variety of the common species. In the beginning of April, 
1808, one of these birds was sent to us by Mr. Anstice, with 
all the marks of the crested cormorant. The sex of this specimen 
has not been ascertained, as it is now (December, 1809) in perfect 
health, but has been completely divested of all the marks that charac- 
terise the crested cormorant, having completely lost the crest, white 
band on the throat, the hoary neck, and the white on the thighs ; in 
fact being completely metamorphosed into the Cormorant. 
The specimen from which the following description is taken, was the 
largest we ever saw. 
It weighed eight pounds ; length three feet three inches ; breadth 
four feet eleven inches ; the length of the bill five inches, hooked at 
the point ; irides green. The chin, and round the base of the bill 
to the eyes, bare and yellow; the head and neck black; back greenish 
black, glossed with purple, each feather bordered with fine deep black ; 
scapulars and coverts of the wings the same, dashed with ash-colour ; 
the whole under parts black, except a small patch of white. on the 
throat; quills dusky black; the tail is rounded, and consists of fourteen 
