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. 420. 5. Phalacrocorax resplendens, Aud. Violet-green Cormorant. Plate CCCCXXII. Fig. 1. Female. Bill scarcely as long as the head, slender, dusky; tail of twelve feathers; gular sac and bare skin on the head, bright orange; plumage silky and splendent, deep green, seeming black in some lights and bright green and purple in others, the somewhat compact feathers of the back edged with dark purple; along the sides of the neck and the hind part of the sides of the body, numerous white piliform feathers terminated by a pencil of filaments; quills and tail-feathers brownish-black and less glossy. This description from an individual shot in October. _Female_, 27; wing 10; tail 5-1/2. Cape Disappointment, near Columbia River. Abundant. Violet-green Cormorant, Phalacrocorax resplendens, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 148. GENUS II. PLOTUS, Linn. ANHINGA.