. The birds of Europe . stinguished, among other things, by thelancet-shaped feathers of the back and scapularies, and by the yellowish red colour of the gular pouch. Inhabits and manners it is identical with its congeners, of which we may take the Common Cormorant as themost familiar example. Its food is fish, which it takes with the utmost dexterity by diving. The head, neck, middle of the back, and all the underparts black ; wings and scapularies brownish ash inthe middle, with a margin of jet black ; beak reddish horn colour, black along its upper margin ; naked skinround the eye and gular
. The birds of Europe . stinguished, among other things, by thelancet-shaped feathers of the back and scapularies, and by the yellowish red colour of the gular pouch. Inhabits and manners it is identical with its congeners, of which we may take the Common Cormorant as themost familiar example. Its food is fish, which it takes with the utmost dexterity by diving. The head, neck, middle of the back, and all the underparts black ; wings and scapularies brownish ash inthe middle, with a margin of jet black ; beak reddish horn colour, black along its upper margin ; naked skinround the eye and gular pouch reddish yellow; irides brown ; tarsi black. As the breeding-season approaches,the occiput becomes adorned with a crest of glossy black feathers, and the sides of the head and neck and thethigh-coverts become sprinkled with the linear dots of white to which we have already adverted. The Plate represents an adult bird, about three fourths of its natural size, assuming the white dots andcrest of the LITTLE CORMORANT. Carbo pygmaeus, Cormoran pygm^e. This species, although termed pygmceus, is very far from being the least of its genus; still it is much less thanany other of its European relatives. It is the eastern portion of Europe alone which constitutes its truehabitat, being very common in some parts of Hungary, and especially along the borders of the lower Danube:it is more rare in Austria, and is seldom seen in Germany. From the tracts it frequents in Europe, we arenaturally led to expect that it is distributed over the adjacent portion of Asia, and we learn that it is foundin great numbers in Asiatic Russia. In the periodical changes of its plumage, and also in the changes which occur in its progress from youthto maturity, it strictly resembles the Common Cormorant; the birds of the first year having the usual browntint pervading the upper surface, and the mottled greyish white on the chest and lower parts: as theyadvance to maturity this dre
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