. The royal natural history. CORMORAyTS. m Cormorants, Darters, and Gaxnets. Family Phalacrocoracid^E. The cormorants, of which there are some thirty species, are the typical repre-sentatives of the first family of the order, and are characterised by their elongated iZ& y \ M: i<^^^^/m^SW^?^. COMMON COHMOKANT. but powerful body, the long neck, which may vary considerably in thickness, themoderately long and narrow beak, of which the tip is sharply deflected, and bytheir lineal and concealed nostrils. The face and throat are naked, the legs shortand stout, with the first toe articulated to t
. The royal natural history. CORMORAyTS. m Cormorants, Darters, and Gaxnets. Family Phalacrocoracid^E. The cormorants, of which there are some thirty species, are the typical repre-sentatives of the first family of the order, and are characterised by their elongated iZ& y \ M: i<^^^^/m^SW^?^. COMMON COHMOKANT. but powerful body, the long neck, which may vary considerably in thickness, themoderately long and narrow beak, of which the tip is sharply deflected, and bytheir lineal and concealed nostrils. The face and throat are naked, the legs shortand stout, with the first toe articulated to the inner side of the metatarsus; andthe claw of the third toe has a serrated inner margin. The wings are of moderatelength, with the third quill the longest; and the tail has either twelve or fourteenfeathers remarkable for their extreme stiflhess. Cormorants, although far iiiorenumerous in the warmer regions of the globe tliau in northern climates, have an 2 78 STEGANOPODOUS BIRDS. almost cosmopolitan distribution, inhabiting countries as remote from one anotheras Britain and New Zealand. Whereas, however, some seldom leave the neigh-bourhood of the sea, where they take up their stations on rocky islands, othersfrequent reedy swamps and marshes, or the banks of rivers and lakes, and rar
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