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lars, and wing-coverts, are of a bronze brown, tinged 
and gloffed with green, and each feather is border- 
ed with Alining bluiOi black ; the fecondary quills 
are nearly of the fame colour : the coverts and the 
primaries are duAcy. The tail confiAs of fourteen 
Aiff hajky dark feathers, which look as if they 
were difcoloured by being dipped in mud or dirty 
kennel water : the legs are thick, Arong, black, and 
coarfe, about two inches and a half long, and the 
outer toe is more than four in length. 
The Corvorant, as before obferved, is found in 
every climate. In Greenland, where it is faid they 
remain throughout the year, the jugular pouch is 
made ufe of by the natives as a bladder to Aoat 
their fiAiing darts, after they are thrown : their A^ins, 
which are tough, are ufed for garments, and their 
AeAi for food ; but the eggs are too fetid to be 
eaten even by the Greenlanders.” * 
Thefe birds ufually affemble in Aocks on the 
fummits and inacceAible parts of the rocks which 
overhang, or are furrounded by the fea, upon which 
the female makes her neft of the withered fea-tang, 
weeds, fticks, and graffes, which are caA on Aipre 
by the waves : Aie lays four or more greeniAi white 
eggs of the fize of thofe of a Goofe, but of a longer 
Aiape. There are writers who affert that, in fome 
parts of the world they build their neAs on trees, 
* A-r6hc Zoology, This muH furely mean the rotten eggs. 
