268 STEGANOPODES. 



Phalacrocorax stictocephalus. 



1259. Sternum of male, with shoulder-crirdle, wanting left cora- 



coid and scapula. From Clarence River, N. S. Wales. 

 S. S. 1068. Presented hy Dr. E. P. Ramsay. 



Phalacrocorax pygmseus. 



Pelecanus pygmcens, Pallas, Itia. ii. A pp. p. 712 (1773). 

 Phalacrocorax jyygmceus. Gates, ed. Hume's Nests & Eggs Iiid. B. 



iii. p. 273 (1890). 

 Microcarho pygmceus, Meyer, Abbild. Vogel-Skelet. i. Taf. cxiii. 



The Little Cormorant, 



Bah. South-eastern Europe, Northern Africa, and Southern 

 Asia as far as Java and Borneo. 



1260. Sternum, with shoulder-girdle, wanting left coracoid and 



scapula. Nepal. S. S. 1819. 



Presented hy B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Phalacrocorax, sp. 



1261. Skull (subfossil) found in Peruvian Guano-beds. 0. C. 



1182 b. Presented by Mrs. George Searson. 



Phalacrocorax, sp. 



1262. Skull. 0. C. 1183. Hunteman. 



Family PLOTID^ *. 



Genus PLOTUSt. 



Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 218 (1766). 



Plotus novse-hoUandiae. 



Plotds novce-hollandio', Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847, p. 34 ; id. 

 Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 496 (1865). 



The New-Holland Darter. 



Hah. Australia and south coast of New Guinea. 



1263. Skeleton (ribs defective). O. C. 11 79 a. 



Received in excJiange. 



1264. Sternum, with shoulder-girdle. 



Presented hy Dr. E. P. Ramsay. 



* Cf. Garrod, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 335; Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 23. 

 t (^f. Forbes on Plotus melanogaster, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 208. 



