. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . BRITISH BIRDS. 381. CORVORANT. COLE GOOSE, OR GREAT BLACK CORMORANT,(^Pelicamis Carboy Lin.— Le Cormorant BufF.) The weight of this fpecies varies from four tofeven pounds, and the fize from thirty-two inchesto three feet four or five in length, and from four feetto four feet fix inches in breadth. The bill, to thecorners of the mouth, meafures four inches, and 382 BRITISH BIRDS. on its ridge two and three-quarters : it is of* a darkhorn colour, and the tip or nail of the upper bill ismuch hooked and Iharp : from the bafe of this it i
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . BRITISH BIRDS. 381. CORVORANT. COLE GOOSE, OR GREAT BLACK CORMORANT,(^Pelicamis Carboy Lin.— Le Cormorant BufF.) The weight of this fpecies varies from four tofeven pounds, and the fize from thirty-two inchesto three feet four or five in length, and from four feetto four feet fix inches in breadth. The bill, to thecorners of the mouth, meafures four inches, and 382 BRITISH BIRDS. on its ridge two and three-quarters : it is of* a darkhorn colour, and the tip or nail of the upper bill ismuch hooked and Iharp : from the bafe of this it isfurrowed on each fide nearly to the tip, withoutany vifible appearance of noftrils: the lower bill iscompreffed, and covered about the gape of themouth with a naked yellowilh Ikin, extended un-der the chin and throat, where it hangs loofe, andforms a kind of pouch, which, together with thefpringing blades on each fide, forming its rim, iscapable of diftention to a great width, and enablesthe bird to fwallow prey apparently too large to beadmitted into its throat: the fkin
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