. The water birds of North America . ves de Cuba. (Adult; not of Audubox.) Phalacrocorax Townsendii, Lemb. t. c. (Young; not of Audubon.) Hab. Mexico, Cuba, and Southern United States, north, in the Mississippi Valley, to Kansasand Southern Illinois, south to Honduras. Sp. Char. Smallest American species of the genus. Tail-feathers, 12. Bill moderately robust,the unguis arched and strongly hooked, the culmen slightly concave in the middle portion, andgently ascending basally. Bare skin of the face extending farthest back on the side of the head,forming quite an angle behind the rictus; feather
. The water birds of North America . ves de Cuba. (Adult; not of Audubox.) Phalacrocorax Townsendii, Lemb. t. c. (Young; not of Audubon.) Hab. Mexico, Cuba, and Southern United States, north, in the Mississippi Valley, to Kansasand Southern Illinois, south to Honduras. Sp. Char. Smallest American species of the genus. Tail-feathers, 12. Bill moderately robust,the unguis arched and strongly hooked, the culmen slightly concave in the middle portion, andgently ascending basally. Bare skin of the face extending farthest back on the side of the head,forming quite an angle behind the rictus; feathers of the throat advancing forward to a little ante-rior to the rictus, the middle portion sometimes slightly indented by an obtuse angle of the nakedskin of the gular sac. Scapulars and wing-coverts rather narrow and tapering, and nearly or quitepointed. Adult (in full breeding-plumage ?) : Gular sac bordered posteriorly by a line of whitereaching upward nearly or quite to the eye. Head, neck, rump, and entire lower parts deep silky.
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