. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . oramis, Meyer. The genus Carbo has the bill middle-sized, or long,straight, compressed ; upper mandible much bent at the tip, the lower compressed ; baseof the bill involved in a membrane which extends to the throat; face and throat naked ;nostrils basal, linear and concealed ; legs strong, short, situated far behind ; all the toesincluded in a web, and the middle claw serrated. 676 AVE S—CORMORANT. pools, they hoodwink them, that they may not be fright
. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . oramis, Meyer. The genus Carbo has the bill middle-sized, or long,straight, compressed ; upper mandible much bent at the tip, the lower compressed ; baseof the bill involved in a membrane which extends to the throat; face and throat naked ;nostrils basal, linear and concealed ; legs strong, short, situated far behind ; all the toesincluded in a web, and the middle claw serrated. 676 AVE S—CORMORANT. pools, they hoodwink them, that they may not be frightened by the they are come to the rivers, they take off their hoods; and having tieda leather thong round the lower part of their necks, that they may not swal-low down the fish they catch, they throw them into the river. They pre-sently dive under Avater; and there, for a long time, with wonderful swift-ness, pursue the fish; and, when they have caught them, rise to the top ofthe water, and, pressing the fish lightly with their bills, swallow them ; tilleach bird has, after this manner, devoured five or six fishes. Then their.
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