. The birds of the Japanese Empire. Birds. STE6AN0P0DES, 211 on the 22nd of February; and there are two in the Pryer collection from Yokohama. There is also a fine example in the Norwich Museum sent by Mr. Ringer from Nagasaki. These examples agree in their measurements with an example from Kamtschatka and with all the examples from China in the Swinhoe coUectioUj including the type of Phalacrocorax tsolus (SwinhoCj Ibisj 1867j p. 395). They average:—^wing 11 inches, tail 6 incheSj bill from frontal feathers 2 inches, tarsus %\ inches. They are all feathered on the forehead to the base of the
. The birds of the Japanese Empire. Birds. STE6AN0P0DES, 211 on the 22nd of February; and there are two in the Pryer collection from Yokohama. There is also a fine example in the Norwich Museum sent by Mr. Ringer from Nagasaki. These examples agree in their measurements with an example from Kamtschatka and with all the examples from China in the Swinhoe coUectioUj including the type of Phalacrocorax tsolus (SwinhoCj Ibisj 1867j p. 395). They average:—^wing 11 inches, tail 6 incheSj bill from frontal feathers 2 inches, tarsus %\ inches. They are all feathered on the forehead to the base of the bill. The breeding-range of the Resplendent Shag extends from the Kurile Islands and Kamtschatka up to Norton Sound, and across the Aleutian chain to the south coast of Alaska as far south-east as Sitka. 196. PHALACEOCORAX BICRISTATUS. (BARE-FACED SHAG.) Phalacrocorax bicristatus, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 301 (1826).. Head of Phalacrocorax bicristatus. 4 natural size. In the Bare-faced Shag, when adult, the forehead and a" con- siderable space round the eye is orange-red and bare of feathers. Young birds are scarcely distinguishable from the young of the Resplendent Shag. Figures : Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. ii. p. 163 (coloured woodcut of head). The Bare-faced Shag was found on the Kurile Islands by Steller, p2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London, R. H. Porter
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