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13. Phalacrocorax chalconotus. 



t Carbo ater, Lesson, Traite d'Oni. p. 604 (1831) [Seal Bay, Aus- 

 tralia, ? New Zealand] ; Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. Zool 1850", p. 627. 



Cormoran g-lauque, Hombr. ^- Jacquinot, Voy. Pole find, Atl. Ois. 

 pi. 31. tig. 1 (1845). 



Graculu3 chalconotus, G. It. Gray, Voy. Erebus 4' Terror, Birds, 

 p. -20, pi. xxi.* (1845) ; Reichenb. Syn. At. pi. xxxv." tig. 2316 

 (1850) ; G. R. Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 252 Tptago]. 



Graculus glaucu.s, Reichenb. Syn. Av. pi. xlix."= fig. 2553 [bad] (1850 1: 

 Bona p. Consp. Av. p. 171 (1855) ; G. R. Gray, Jfaml-l. B. iii 

 p. 127 (1871). 



Phalacrocorax glaucu.^, Jacq. ^- Pucher. Voy. Pole Sud, Zool. iii. 

 p. 127 (1853) ; BuUer, Man. B. N. Zeal. p. 96 (lg82) ; id. B. N. 

 Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 163 (1888). 



Phalacrocorax chalconotus, Buller, B. N. Zeal. p. 334 (1873) ; id. 

 Man. B. S. Zeal. p. 94 (1882) ; id. B. N. Zeal. 2ud ed. ii. p. 162 

 (1888). 



Adult in hreeding-plumwje. Very similar to the adult of P. <jra- 

 cuhis, but the bill i.s somewhat stouter aud more hooked at the 

 extremity ; the feathers of the upper back and scapulars bronze- 

 green, edged with p«7d shining brass-green, and the head, neck, 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts glossed with darker and 

 more bluish green. Crest nearly 2 inches long. Tail composed 

 of 12 feathers ; the basal portion of the shafts while. '• Bare space 

 encircling the eye orange ; bill greyish brown ; legs and feet dull 

 orange-yellow '" (Buller). Total length about 28 inches, culmen 2-3, 

 wing 11-2, tail 5'6, tarsus 2"5. 



Immature probably in the second autumn phimage. Head, neck, 

 and underparts dull sooty-brown, with a dull oil-green gloss ; 

 upper back glossed with dull oil-green, most of the feathers with 

 indistinct darker margins, being in this respect unlike those of 

 the adult ; wings and scapulars brownish with a slight gloss : lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts glossed with dark bluish green 

 as in the adult. 



Hub. New Zealand coasts. 



a, Ad. sk. Otago, New Zealand. Percy Earl, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of the species. ) 



b, Imm. sk. New Zealand. Capt. Stokes, E.N. 



[P.]. 



c, d. <S '} vix ad. The Bluff, Southland, New Baron A. von Iliigel 

 sk. Zealand, Feb. [P.]. 



t Lesson's original description cannot be iilentified : — 



"Cormoran noir; Carbo atcr. Isoir en entier; taille d'un canard. De la 

 baie des Chiens marins, a la Nouvelle Hollande." 



Pucheran states that he has examined Lesson's type, and finds it to belong 

 to the present species, but I do not tliink that his name should supersede 

 P. chalconotH.<. 



