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PHALACEOCOEACIBa:. 



margined 'witli greenish black ; quills and tail-feathers blackish ; 

 the outer webs of the secondaries glossed with pale bronze. Tail 

 composed of 14 feathers. 



Adult male. Total length about 32 inches, culmen 2- 75, wing 

 12-8, tail 0-5, tarsus 2-4. 



Adult female. Total length (measured in the flesh) 32-3 inches, 

 culmen 2-45, wing 12-4, tail 5'5, tarsus 2-5. 



Adult in non-breeding plumage (Port Elizabeth, Sept. : Eothschild 

 Museum). Similar to the above, but the white plumules on the 

 head, neck, and flanks are absent, aad the feathers of the wing- 

 coverts, upper back, and scapulars, &c., are of a paler, almost 

 greyish bronze. This does not appear to be the result of wear, the 

 feathers being apparently freshly moulted. 



" Iris green ; upper mandible black, lower fading into white at 

 gape ; pouch mottled olive-green and yellow ; a yellow patch below 

 each eye " (F. J. Jachson). 



A younger example resembles the above, but the dark back of the 

 neck is not nearly so clearly defined from the white sides, which 

 are spotted with brown ; and the bronze middles to the feathers of 

 the middle of the back are not of so rich and dark a colour. 



In a still younger example {C&^e Verde Is., April: Mus. Boyd Alex- 

 ander) the top of the head, back of the neck, and upper parts are 

 mostly brownish grey, each feather of the back, wing-coverts, and 

 scapulars with a blackish-brown margin ; middle of the upper back, 

 lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, lesser upper wing-coverts, 

 sides and flanks brownish black, glossed with oil-green ; rest of 

 luiderparts pure white, the fore part and especially the sides of the 

 neck being faintly spotted with brown. 



In a quite young example the brown spotting extends over the 

 fore part of the neck and chest as well as the sides, and the wing- 

 coverts, scapulars, quills, and tail-feathers are sharp-pointed and 

 margined with buff at the extremity. 



Hah. Africa south of about 12° N. lat ; Socotra; Cape Verde 

 Islands, and other small islands off the South African coast. 



Sir Andrew Smith 



[P.]. 

 F. A. Barratt, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 



a 6. [ cJ ] ad. et 

 imm. sk. 



c. Imm. sk. 



d. 2 imm. sk. 



e. Imm. sk. 



South Africa. 



Potchefstroom. 



Rio Coroca, Benguela, Jan. 



(Anchieta). 

 Kilimanjaro. 



Rev. W. Morris [P.]. 



4. Phalacrocorax capensis. 



Pelecanus capensis, Sparrman, 3Ius. Carls, iii. pi. 61 (1788). 

 Phalacrocorax capensis, G. R. Gray, List of B. pt. iii. p. 185 (1844) ; 



Gurney, Ibis, 1864, p. 355 [Natal]. 

 Carbo cristatus, Pucheran (nee Gmel.), Rev. et May. Zuol. 1850, 



p. 630 [Cape of Good Hope]. 

 Carbo graculus, Pucheran [nee Linn.), Rev. et May. Zool. 1850, 



p. 631 [Cape of Good Hope]. 

 Graculus capensis, -Retc^ewi. Isatatores, pi. xxxiv. figs. 863-4 (1850) ; 



