404 
Synopsis of the Birds 
with white ; orbits and pouch black : even in winter no crest, 
head, neck and thighs, finely streaked with white. 
Young blackish, beneath whitish ; orbits and pouch yel- 
lowish. 
Dwarf Shag , Lath . Pelecanus pygmceus , Pallas , Reise. it. 
p. 7l2.jp/. G . Carbo pygmceus, Temm, 
Inhabits the north of both continents ? common in northern 
Asia, and eastern Europe. 
357. Phalacrocorax africanus, Dumont. Bill two inches 
ong, longer than the head ; tail long, rounded, of twelve 
feathers ; scapulars long, subulate ; size very small. 
Adult black, slightly glossed with green ; throat white. 
Young blackish, beneath whitish. 
African Shag. Pelecanus africanus , Gm. Lath. Not in 
my Catalogue. 
Inhabits both continents :* not found in Europe. 
78. TACHYPETES. 
Pelecanus , L. Gm. Lath. Scopoli. Sula, Briss. Fregata , 
Lacep. Cuv. Dumeril. Halieus , 111. Often. Tachypetes , Vieill. 
Temm. Ranz. 
Bill longer than the head, robust, dilated and entire on 
the margins ; both mandibles strongly hooked and acuminate 
at the point $ upper unguiculated, very acute, depressed at 
* We are somewhat doubtful, whether this and the preceding species 
are entitled to a place in this Synopsis, particularly P. pygmaeus, of which 
we have seen but one specimen said to be American, and there is reason 
to doubt, whether that was really killed in the United States. We have 
less reason for suspecting the nativity of P. africanus, having seen several 
reported American, specimens. At all events, in such a case as this, as it 
is not introducing a nominal species, we have preferred abundance to de- 
ficiency. A species of this genus which we are not prepared to exem- 
plify, perhaps the P. brasilianus, inhabits the United States. 
