1. PHALACKOCOKAX. 357 



white plumes are dropjjed after the breoding-season. Tail composed 

 of 12 feathers. Iris pale green ; bill dark brown ; naked skin 

 round eye and on throat purplish grey (?) ; legs and feet orange- 

 yellow. 



Adult male. Total length 25 inches, culmen 2-2-15, wing 9-4, 

 tail 3-9, tarsus 2, outer toe and claw 3*3. 



Adult female. Total length about 21 inches, culmen 1-8, wing 8'6, 

 tail 3-5, tarsus 1-85, outer toe and claw 3-1. 



llab. Chatham Islands. 



a-e. c? 2 ad. et Chatham Is. ( W. Hawkins). Dr. H. O. Forbes [C.]. 

 pull. sk. 



8. Phalacrocorax perspicillatus. 



? Red-faced Shag, Lath. Gen. Spi. iii. pt. ii. p. GOl (1785) ; id. 



Gen. Hist. B. x. p. 426 (1824). 

 Pelecanus urile, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 575 (1788) [part] ; Lath. Ind. 



Orn. u. p. 888 (1790). 

 Phalacrocorax perspicillatus, Pallas, Zoogr. Hosso-As. ii. p. 305 



(1811) ; Gould, Zool. Voij. Sulph. p. 49, pi. xxxii. (1844) ; Bonap. 



Consp. Av. p. 167 (1850); Elliot, B. N. Amer. ii. pi. 1. (1869) ; 



Tacz. Bull. Soc. Z. Fr. 1877, p. 41 ; Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



vi. p. 65 (1883) ; Coues, Key N. Am. B. 2nd ed. p. 728 (1884) ; 



Baird, Brexo. S; Ridqw. Water-B. N. Amer. ii. p. 164, fig. (1884) ; 



Stejn. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 180 (1885) ; id. Proc. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. xii. pp. 83-94, pis. ii.-iv. [osteology] (1889) ; Allen, 



Auk, vii. p. 276 (1890) ; A. O. U. Check-l. 2nd ed. p. 327 (1895) ; 



Bidijic. Man. N. A. B. p. 81 (1896) [14 tail-feathers!]. 

 II ydrocorax urile, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Mist. Nat. viii. p. 89 (1817). 

 Phalacrocorax urile, Steph. in Skald's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. p. 86 



(1826). 

 Graculus urile, Reichenh. Natatores, pi. xxxv.'' figs. 2311-12 (1855). 

 Graculus perspicillatus, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 877 (1860) ; Schl. 



Mas. Pays-Bas, vi. Pelec. p. 17 (1863) [Sitka] ; G. E. Gray, 



Hand-l. B. iii. p. 127 (1871); Coues, Key N. Am. B. p. 304 



(1872) ; Finsch, Abh. Ver. Brem. iii. p. 85 (1873). 



Adult in hreeding-phimage. Much like P. bicristatus in general 

 appearance, but verj' much larger. Forehead naked ; feathers of the 

 face and the two tuft-like crests on the crown and nape shining 

 bronze-purple ; back of the head and upper part of the neck bronze 

 oil -green, shading into dark bluish green on the lower part of the 

 neck ; head and upper part of the neck ornamented with long 

 scattered hair-like feathers of a pale yellowish-white colour ; base 

 of neck, interscapular region, and chest dark bronze-green, shading 

 into deep greenish blue on the rest of the upper and under parts ; 

 scapulars and wing-coverts deep purple • quills and tail-feathers 

 black, the shafts of the latter pale horny white on the upper surface, 

 shading into blackish towards the extremity. A large patch of white 

 feathers on each ilauk. Tail composed of 12 feathers. Bill blackish, 

 lighter at the tip ; naked skin on the throat apparently orange, that 

 of the forehead and lores dark ; a patch of thick yellowish-white skin 



