BY A. F. BASSET HULL. 66^ 



visitors to Norfolk Island in April and May 1892. I did not 

 see this bird during my visit to the Island, but was informed by 

 Mrs. Laing that several had been seen there at various times. 



24l(M). 36.PHALACROCORAX MELANOLEUcus VieiUot. 



Little Cormorant. 



Graculus melanoleiiciis, Ramsay, p. 38. 



Hab. — Lord Howe Island(visitor only.) (Australia generally, 

 Tasmania, New Zealand, New Guinea, Molucca Is., Sunda Is.). 



244(M). 37.SULA cyanops Sundevall. 



Masked Gannet; Booby and Fish-bird(L. H.I. ); Gahnet(N.I.). 



Sula per sonata, Gould; Crowfoot, p.269. 



Sula cyanops, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.H.Wales, ii.(2nd ser.) 

 p.678, 1887; Ramsay, p.38; North, 'Nests and Eggs,' p.379; 

 North, ' Lord Howe Island,' p.48. 



Hab. — Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. (N. Australia, S. 

 Tropical Oceans). 



The Masked Gannet breeds in fairly large numbers on the 

 Admiralty Islets off Lord Howe Island, and on Nepean and 

 Phillip Islands, and the smaller rocky islets off Norfolk Island. 

 The season extends from early in September until January, but 

 in the majority of cases October is the month for laying. Except 

 in a few isolated instances, the nests contained two eggs during 

 the seasons of 1907 and 1908, but this bird appears to make 

 family arrangements in accordance with the food-supply. On 

 the Admiralty Islet, which I visited in 1907, of the nests 

 examined one contained three fresh eggs, twenty contained two 

 in varying stages, and one contained one fresh egg which was pro- 

 bably an uncompleted sitting, as it was quite clean. I found no 

 nests containing young birds on this occasion(16th October). In 

 1908, I found two nests on Nepean Island, each containing a 

 fresh egg, one containing two eggs half incubated, and one con- 

 taining two eggs just chipping(15th October). On the 3rd No- 

 vember, 1908, I visited Phillip Island and examined about twenty 



