Plate CCLXVI. Male, Female, and Young.
Tail of fourteen feathers. In summer, a small longitudinal occipital
black crest, and numerous linear elongated white feathers on the head
and upper part of neck; bill dusky, with the lower mandible whitish
toward the base; gular sac yellow; plumage black, glossed with deep
greenish-blue; at the base of the gular sac a broad gorgelet of white;
a patch of white on the side over the thigh; feathers of wings and
part of the back dull bluish-grey, glossed with bronze, their
fringe-like margins greenish-black; primary quills greyish-black,
secondary like the other wing-feathers; tail greyish-black; shafts of
all the feathers black at the end, leaden-grey towards the base.
Female similar. After the breeding season the white feathers on the
head and sides fall off. Young, before being fledged, with the skin
dull livid, the bill dusky, at the base flesh-coloured, the feet
purplish-dusky, the webs yellowish-brown.
_Male_, 37, 62.
Ranges during winter southward to New York. Abundant from
Massachusetts eastward. Breeds on high precipitous rocks, in
Newfoundland, Labrador, and Baffin's Bay. Migratory.
Phalacrocorax Carbo, Bonap. Syn. p. 402.
Cormorant, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 479.
Common Cormorant. Phalacrocorax Carbo, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii.
p. 458.