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PELECANIN^. PHALACROCORAX. 
Plialacrocorax Floridanus, Florida Cormorant, Aud. Om. Biog. v. iii. p. 387 ; 
V, V. p. 632. 
419. 4. Phalacrocorax Townsendi, Aud. Townsend’s Cor- 
morant. 
Plate CCCCXII. Fig. 2. Male. 
Tail of twelve feathers ; plumage of the neck and sides interspersed 
with linear white feathers : bill yellow, with the ridge brown ; gular 
sac and bare skin on the head bright orange ; upper part of head and 
hind neck dusky, tinged with green ; hind part of back greenish-black ; 
the rest of the upper parts brownish-grey, each feather edged with 
black ; quills brownish-grey, similarly edged with black ; outer pri- 
maries and tail-feathers black ; sides of the head, fore part of neck, 
and breast light yellowish-brown ; the middle of the neck in front 
darker, the sides, abdomen, and tibial feathers shaded into brownish- 
black, tinged with green. This description from a single individual 
shot on the 8th of October. Another individual, apparently a bird in 
its first plumage, has the head and upper part of the fore neck darker, 
the middle of the breast lighter, the feathers on the back margined 
with greyish -brown, and an inner band of dark brown ; its bill is 
longer, but more slender, the unguis less curved, the feathers not en- 
tirely obliterated from the space before the eye, and extending farther 
on the gular sac. 
Male, 85 ; wing 12-2 ; tail 6|. 
Cape Disappointment, Columbia River. Common. 
Phalacrocorax Townsendi, Townsend’s Cormorant, Ann. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 149. 
420. 5. Phalacrocorax resplendens, Aud. Violet-green 
Cormorant. 
Plate CCCCXXII. Fig. 1. Female. 
Bill scarcely as long as the head, slender, dusky ; tail of twelve 
feathers ; gular sac and bare skin on the head, bright orange ; plu- 
mage silky and splendent, deep green, seeming black in some lights 
and bright green and purple in others, the somewhat compact feathers 
of the back edged with dark purple ; along the sides of the neck and 
the hind part of the sides of the body, numerous white piliform fea- 
thers terminated by a pencil of filaments ; quills and tail-feathers 
brownish-black and less glossy. This description from an individual 
shot in October. 
Female, 27 ; wing 10 ; tail .5-^. 
Cape Disappointment, near Columbia River. Abundant. 
Violet-green Connorant, Phalacrocorax resplendens, Aun. Om. Biog. v. v. p. 148. 
