. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 156 TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS — STEGANOPODES. Phalacrocorax lacuslris, Cundl. MSS. (Lawuknce.) Phtthwroconua rcsplcndeiis, Lkmb. Avoh Jo Cuba. (Adult; not of Auduihjn.) P/uilacrucorax Toiviisciulii, LEMii. t. c. (Young; not of Audubon.) Hab. Mexico, Cubti, and Southern United States, north, in the Mississippi Valley, to Kansas and Southern Illinois, south to Honduras. Si". Char. Smallest American species of the genus. Tail-feathers, 12. Bill moderately robust, the unguis arched and strongly hooked,
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 156 TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS — STEGANOPODES. Phalacrocorax lacuslris, Cundl. MSS. (Lawuknce.) Phtthwroconua rcsplcndeiis, Lkmb. Avoh Jo Cuba. (Adult; not of Auduihjn.) P/uilacrucorax Toiviisciulii, LEMii. t. c. (Young; not of Audubon.) Hab. Mexico, Cubti, and Southern United States, north, in the Mississippi Valley, to Kansas and Southern Illinois, south to Honduras. Si". Char. Smallest American species of the genus. Tail-feathers, 12. Bill moderately robust, the unguis arched and strongly hooked, the culnieii slightly concave in the middle portion, and gently ascending basally. Bare skin of the face extending farthest back on the side of the head, fonning (piite an angle behind the rictus; featliers of the throat advancing forwaitl to a li'le ante- rior to the rictus, the middle portion sometimes sliglitly indenteil by an obtuse angle of the naked skin of the gular sac. Scapulars and wing-coverts rather narrow and tapering, and nearly or ipiite pointed. Adult (iii, full breedimj-plnnuuje !) : Oular sac bordered posteriorly by a line of white reaching upward nearly or quite to the eye. Head, neck, rump, and entire lower parts deep silky It. brownish black, with a very faint puqilish-brown glow's in some lights ; back, scapulars, and wings dark brownish-slaty, each feather narrowly bonlered with, black ; ]iriniaries slate-black ; uni- form deep dull black, the shafts black. Superciliary region, sides of tiie neck, antl anal region ornamented by a few short and narrow white tilamentous featliers. Bill liglit colored (in skin), mottlml with darker, the culmen dusky ; gular sac brownish (orange-nid in lile ?) ; iris green ; legs and feet deep black. Adnll, in rnintcr: Similar to the alun-e, but without the white filaments. Youiig, first iiliaruige: Hi:ad, neck, and lower parts grayish umber-brown, In^coming gnulually darker, or nearly black, on the najM;, sidi's, fl
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