Plate CCCCXII. Fig. 2. Male.
Tail of twelve feathers; plumage of the neck and sides interspersed
with linear white feathers: bill yellow, with the ridge brown; gular
sac and bare skin on the head bright orange; upper part of head and
hind neck dusky, tinged with green; hind part of back greenish-black;
the rest of the upper parts brownish-grey, each feather edged with
black; quills brownish-grey, similarly edged with black; outer
primaries and tail-feathers black; sides of the head, fore part of
neck, and breast light yellowish-brown; the middle of the neck in
front darker, the sides, abdomen, and tibial feathers shaded into
brownish-black, tinged with green. This description from a single
individual shot on the 8th of October. Another individual, apparently
a bird in its first plumage, has the head and upper part of the fore
neck darker, the middle of the breast lighter, the feathers on the
back margined with greyish-brown, and an inner band of dark brown; its
bill is longer, but more slender, the unguis less curved, the feathers
not entirely obliterated from the space before the eye, and extending
farther on the gular sac.
_Male_, 35, wing 12-1/2; tail 6-3/4.
Cape Disappointment, Columbia River. Common.
Phalacrocorax Townsendi, Townsend's Cormorant, Aud. Orn. Biog.
v. v. p. 149.