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The Cormorant. Corvus aquaticus.
Numb. LXXXI.
T T S Weight was three Pounds and three Ounces ; the Length, from
•■■ the Point òf thè Bill to the End of the Tail, two foot four Inches;
Breadth three Foot fix Inches : in Bignefs it is not much inferiour to a
Goof e-, it is of a dusky obfcure brown Colour all over the Body, -excepting
under the Chin, and round the Eyes it is of a fordid white 'inclining
to a yellow: the Bill is like that of the Shag, three Inches and
a half long, hooked at the End, of a rediih yellow ; the upper Mandible
having iharpe Edges, the Sides of the lower Mandible compreffed and
broad the Tongue very imall hardly to be perceived ; the Eyes fituate
nearer the Aperture of the Mouth than in moil: other Birds, having cinereous
Circles about the Pupil.
The Tail is coinpofed of fourteen ftiff hard Feathers five Inches and
a half long, when fpread, ending in a round Circumference, being concave
ón the-under fide, not being in any Part covered with Feathers
either above or beneath: the Legs are ftrong, thick, but very fhort,
broad, and flat; (at leaft in the Young ones) thè Feet and Claws
black, covered with a Skin, ; not divided into perfeift 'Scales, But cancellated.
It hath four' Toes in è'ach foot all webbed together by a broad
black Membrane, like the Jhlk’s.
The Stomach is membranaceous, but its upper Part thick and .glaii-
dulous ; within were Bones of Fiihes which it had devoured, and one
Fiih entire, which Was a filiali Codfiih; dlfo màny little long blackifh
Worms of the Figure of Earth-Worms, Mr. Willoughby alfo found the
like Worms in the Stomach of a Young one, which he got at Sevenhuys
in Holland, where many of this Kind build upon Trees: the Guts
were long having many Revolutions; the blind Guts very finali, the
Liver large divided into two Lobes, the right one the bigger. It is
infefted with Lice of a pale red Colour having a great black Spot in the
middle of their Backs.
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