14 BULLETIN 15 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



The data as given are taken from the label. However, in Mearns' 

 field catalog no mention is made of this specimen, and on March 

 3 he certainly was not collecting at Lake Shala, but at Malke 

 and Cofali. It seems that someone else, probably Mr. Childs Frick, 

 collected the specimen. There is some indistinct, blurred pencil writ- 

 ing on the label that is no longer legible. In all probability the 

 data are correct, as Mr. Frick was not with Mearns at Malke, and 

 very likely was the collector in this case. 



The size of the bill in this specimen raises serious doubts as to the 

 distinction of lugubris and lucidus. It is heavy and large, the chord 

 of the culmen being 77 millimeters, larger than a South African 

 example of lucidus in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The 

 wing measures 350 millimeters, exceeding in size a small series of both 

 lucidus and luguhnis, the tail is 158, and the tarsus 63 millimeters. 

 With this may be compared the following measurements, a female of 

 lugub7-is from Lake Naivasha, Kenya Colony : Wing, 325 ; tail, 148 ; 

 culmen, 64.5 ; tarsus, 55.5 millimeters. 



Large cormorants, undoubtedly of this form, were recorded as 

 follows : Lake Shala, March 3, 1 collected ; Black Abaya Lake, March 

 18-20, inclusive, 7 seen; between Abaya Lake and White Abaya 

 Lake, March 23-26, 4 noted ; Lake Kudolf , Kenya Colony, July 5-8, 

 1,000 together with an equal number of P. africcbiius; from the 

 southeastern end of Lake Kudolf south for a distance of 10 miles, 

 about 200 birds were observed on July 10 and 11. 



The specimen is lacking the second rectrix (from the outside) on 

 the left side of the tail. 



PHALACROCORAX AFRICANUS AFRICANUS (Gmelin) 



Pelecanus africanw^ Gmelin, Syst. Nat, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 577, 1789: Africa 

 (restricted type locality: White Nile District, C. H. B. Grant, Ibis, 1915, p. 75). 



Specimens collected: 



One immature unsexed, Hawash Kiver, Ethiopia, February 10, 

 1912. 



The single specimen collected is unfortunately badly damaged: 

 The tip of the bill is gone and the right foot is missing. The chin 

 and upper throat are pure white with a few dusky feathers showing 

 on the latter; the lower throat and breast are dark grayish brown 

 fading posteriorly into the dull white of the abdomen; the sides, 

 flanks, lower abdomen and under tail-coverts are black. In its gen- 

 eral appearance it agrees with a young male from Metet, Cameroon 

 (M.C.Z. 81189), but the upper throat and chin in the latter are not 

 pure white. 



The long-tailed cormorant was recorded as follows: Hawash 

 River, February 10, 1 collected; Black Abaya Lake, March 18- 



