338 



PHALACROCOKACIDJ?. 



IP. Back and scapulars with 

 ash middles ; lower back 

 brownish black, with a _ 



dull oil-green gloss sulcirostru, p. -jTb. 



d\ Feathers of the back and sca- 

 pulars lanceolate. 

 e". Size larger : culmen 1-9-2-2 

 inches ; wing 10-5-11-5 ; 



tail(3-9-7'2 vigua,^.^,^. 



/•\ Size smaller: culmen 1-65- 

 1-85 inch; wing 10-105; 



taU 5-8-6-4 mextcanus, p. o81. 



General colour of the underparts pure 



white. . 



g'. Legs and feet red, orange, or yeUowish 



in dry skins. 



a". Feathering on the chin extending 



beyond a vertical line drawn from 



the anterior margin of the eye (see 



H- 3)- 

 e'. Ear-coverts bluish or pm-plish 



black, 

 e^ Fore part of neck white like 

 the throat and rest of under- 

 parts. 

 q'\ With nasal caruncles. 

 ' c«. Size larger: culmen 2-55 

 inches, depth at forehead 



0-5 • win"' 12"3 carunculatus, p. .jo4. 



d^. Size smaller: culmen 2-15 

 inches, depth at forehead 



35 ; wing 104 onsloivi, p. 385. 



h\ With no nasal caruncles. 



e«. Size larger: culmen 24 



inches; wing ir6-ll'7; 



white on the fore-neck as 



wide as the white on the 



throat stewarti, p. 385. 



/6. Size smaller : culmen 205 

 inches ; wing 10-6-10-9 ; 

 white on the fore-neck 

 much narrower than on 



the throat colensoi, p. 38b. 



f\ Fore part of neck black ; throat 

 and rest of underparts white. 

 I's. Wing - coverts and scapulars 

 uniform oil-green; culmen 



2-1 inches campbelli, p. 387. 



k\ Wing -coverts and scapulars 

 dull bronze-green margined 

 with dark (rreenish blue ; 



culmen 2-9 inches bouffamvillu, p. 387. 



f\ Ear-coverts white (probably the 

 throat and fore-neck become 

 white in the non-breeding pin- 

 jjjg^„^) magellanima, p. ooo. 



