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LONG-TAILED CORMORANT. 
having a large and conspicuous transverse spot at 
the end of each, hut the extreme margin of their 
tips is white ; on the three or four last and largest 
of these feathers this black spot almost disappears ; 
those of the wing-covers that are near the shoulder 
are deep black, and it is only those in the middle 
of the wing which resembles the scapulars; the 
shoulders, the outer margin of the wing, and the 
quills, are deep unspotted glossy black, as is all the 
rest of the plumage. Tail-feathers narrow, long, and 
much graduated, their tips are rounded ; throat and 
breast mottled with brown ; chin and body beneath 
pure white ; the feathers are not pointed. 
Total length, 17 inches ; bill, gape, 2 T 2 5 ; front, 
l/j ; wings, 8j, reaching to the base of the tail ; 
tail, 6$, outer-feather 3 inches shorter ; tarsus, 1 ; 
outer toe and claw, 2J. 
