. A dictionary of birds . that bird is nowextinct. COPPERSMITH, see Barbet. CORACOID (named after the coracoid process on the humanshoulder-blade, which was likened in shape by mediaeval anatomiststo a Ravens bill) one of a pair of strong bones which connect theanterior or basal margin of the sternum with the scapula andclavicle, and form the chief articulation of the humerus Avith theshoulder-girdle (see Skeleton). CORACOMORPH^, Prof. Huxleys name for the large gi^oupof ^^I^OGNATHOUS birds—incomparably the largest of those thatnow exist, and for the most part equivalent to the Passeres ofLinn
. A dictionary of birds . that bird is nowextinct. COPPERSMITH, see Barbet. CORACOID (named after the coracoid process on the humanshoulder-blade, which was likened in shape by mediaeval anatomiststo a Ravens bill) one of a pair of strong bones which connect theanterior or basal margin of the sternum with the scapula andclavicle, and form the chief articulation of the humerus Avith theshoulder-girdle (see Skeleton). CORACOMORPH^, Prof. Huxleys name for the large gi^oupof ^^I^OGNATHOUS birds—incomparably the largest of those thatnow exist, and for the most part equivalent to the Passeres ofLinnaeus and Cuvier, and wholly to the Volucres of Sundevall{Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 46S-472). (See Introduction.) CORMORANT^—from the Ijatin cormis marimis, through the ^ La Volee aux Macreuses. Koiiveaux Souvenirs de Chasse ct de la Pechedans le midi de la France, pji. 53-65. Paris : 1860. ^ Some authors, following Cains, derive the word from corviis vorans andspell it Corvorant, bnt doubtless wrongly. CORMORANT 105. French (in some patois^ of which it is still cor marin, and incertain Italian dialects corvo marin or corvo marino)—alarge sea-fowl belonging to the genus Fhalacrocorax ^ {Carlo, Halieiis,and Graculus of some ornithologists), and that group of the LinnaeanOrder Anseres, now pretty generally recognized by Illigers termSteganopodes, of which it with its allies forms a Family Phalacro-coracklx. The Cormorant, P. carlo, frequents almost all the sea-coast ofEurope, and breeds in societies at various stations most generallyon steep cliffs, but occasionallyon rocky islands as well as ontrees. The nest consists of alarge mass of seaAveed, and,with the ground immediatelysurrounding it, generally looks as though bespattered with cormorant. (After Swainson.) whitewash, from the excrementof the bird, which lives entirely on fish. The eggs, from four to sixin number, are small, and have a thick, soft, calcareous shell, bluish-white when first laid, but soon becoming disc
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