. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. PHA LA CROCniiA CIDJE: CORMORA NTS. 727 10- iid 751. 753. 753. bronzy-gray, ; quills ami tail jjrayiah-bluck; ffct black. In summer, wln'ii breeding, a wiiite Hiiuk-pateii, miiiii'rotis long tiiready white iduines scattereti on head and neck, and a small black oeciiiital and nuchal crest. Length ; e.\tent (;
. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. PHA LA CROCniiA CIDJE: CORMORA NTS. 727 10- iid 751. 753. 753. bronzy-gray, ; quills ami tail jjrayiah-bluck; ffct black. In summer, wln'ii breeding, a wiiite Hiiuk-pateii, miiiii'rotis long tiiready white iduines scattereti on head and neck, and a small black oeciiiital and nuchal crest. Length ; e.\tent (; wing ; tail ; tarsus over ; hill along ridge, along the gape. In winter no crests or white feathers on neck or Hanks, Young; liill grayish-brown, black on top and at tip : bare skin and sac yellow. Top of head ami liind neck hrowuish-hlack ; back and wing-coverts brownish-gray, the feathers with dark margins, some of them also edyed filially with whitish. Throat brownish-white, and unihT parts generally whitish, along th(! sides, dusky under the wings and across lower belly. The naked young in the ui'st arc unpleasant livid purplisli objects, witli protuberant bellies, and large feet; the tirst ilown is blackish. Eggs 3, sometimes 4, bluish-green coated with white chalky substance, ;J.(')0 X ; nests of sticks, moss, and seaweeds, very tilthy and offensive. Atlantic Coast of Kiirope and North America ; breeds in great numbers on the rocky shores of Labrador and Newfoundland ; S. to the Middle States in winter. P. dilo'phus. (Gr. 8/j, dis, twice ; \6(f)ot, lophos, crest. Fig. 50fi.) Cormorant. Tail of 12 feathers. Gular sac convex behind. No coloreil gorget. Glossy. Fio. 606. — Double-crested Cormorant, nat. Bize. (Ad nst. del. E. C.) greenish-black; feathers of the back and wings coppery-gray, black-shafted, black-edged. Adult with curly black lateral crests in the breeding season, but few if any other fila
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