Phalacrocorax Floridanus, Florida Cormorant, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 387; v. v. p. 632.
419. 4. Phalacrocorax Townsendi, Aud. Townsend's Cormorant.
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 121/2; tail 63/4.
Cape Disappointment, Columbia River. Common.
Phalacrocorax Townsendi, Townsend's Cormorant, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 149.
420. 5. Phalacrocorax resplendens, Aud. Violet-green Cormorant.
Plate CCCCXXII. Fig. 1. Female.