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GREEN- CRESTED CORMORANT. 
bronzed brown, darker at the shafts, and surrounded 
by a broad zone of velvet black ; on the secondaries 
this occupies the outer edge only ; quills and tail 
dull black ; upon each thigh there is a conspicuous 
oval spot of pure white, of greater or less size and 
distinctness according to the season, and at times 
only marked by one or two straggling feathers ; feet 
and legs black. 
GREEN-CRESTED CORMORANT. 
Phalacracoracc crislatus. 
PLATE XX. 
Phalacracorax cristatus, Steph Flem., Selby . — Carbo eristatus, 
cormoran longup, Tamm . — Crested Cormorant, or Shag Green 
Cormorant of British authors . 
This species, undergoing a less general change than 
the last, only losing its beautiful crest, is more de- 
cidedly maritime in habits, and although generally, 
it is not so abundantly distributed around our shores 
as the last ; its British range is, however, as exten- 
sive ; its breeding-places are precipitous sea-cliffs ; 
the most extensive colony which has ever come 
under our observation is one in the Isle of Man, on 
