3^8 BRITISH BIRDS. 
CRESTED CORVORANT. 
The creft is black, and longer than that of the 
Great Black Corvorant: the crown of the head, 
and nearly the whole neck, are ftreaked downwards 
with fcratches of white and dufky : a white gorget 
hangs from the cheeks, and covers the chin ; this 
is bounded behind by a broadifli black fillet, which 
partly covers the auriculars, and is extended to the 
corner of each eye : a patch of white feathers coyqs 
