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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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E., pi. 405. 178 PALMIPEDES. Famihj PELECANID^. (Bonaparte.J Genus Carbo. fMeyer and Wolff.) Generic Characters.—Bill moderate, or long, straight, andcompressed, culmen rounded; upper mandible much curvednear the point, hooked; inferior mandible compressed; thebase connected with a membrane which extends to the throat.Pace and throat naked; nostrils basal, linear, hid. Legsstrong, short, much drawn into the abdomen; three toes infront and one behind, the hind toe articulated to the innersurface of the tarsus, all united by a membrane; claw of themiddle toe serrated on the inner edge. Wings of moderatelength; the first feather slightly shorter than the second,which is tlie longest. LITTLE COEMOEANT. Carho pygmoius. Carho pygmcBus,Pelecanus fygmceus,Mydrocorax pygmceus,Phalacrocorax pygmmis,Cormoranus fygmaus, Cormoran pygmee,Zwergscliarhe,Dwarf SJiag, Temminck; Man., 1820.Pallas. ViEILLOT.BONAPAETE. DxjBOTS; Ois. de la Belgique, part 111, pi. 230.Of the French.Of the Gebmaks.Latham.
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O LITTLE COKMORANT. 179 Specific Characters.—Beak shorter tlian the head, and slender;tail long, the feathers straight and stiif. Length twenty inchesand a half; from carpal joint to tip seven inches and a half;beak from forehead one inch and three tenths; beak from rictustwo inches; tarsus one inch; middle toe and claw two inches anda half; tail sis inches, and, in the specimen figured only ten quills. The Little Cormorant is an inhabitant of tlie easternparts of Europe and Asia. It is common in Hungaryand Dalmatia, and is found along tlie shores of theBlack and Caspian Seas, It occurs also in Greece,and occasionally wanders into Germany, Belgium, France,and Italy, but not, as stated by M. Dubois, by mistake,into the British Isles. It is very abundant, accordingto Lord Lilford, in Epirus, in the Ionian Isles, whereit does not appear to have any particular preferencefor salt water to fresh, as it is often to be found inditches and flooded meadows far from the sea.—(Ibis,vol. ii, p

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