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Microcarbo stictocephalus, Bonap. Consp. Av. ii. p. 178 (1855). 

 Giaculiis stictocephalus, G. R. Gray, Ibis, 18G2, p. 252; id. Hand-l. 



B. iii.p. 129 (1871) ; Bamsmj, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 203 



(1877); id. Tab. Lint Amtr. B. p. 25 (1888); North, Nests ^■ 



Eggs Amtr. B. p. 367 (1889). 

 Phalacrocorax stictocephalus, Gould, Handb. B. Amir. ii. p. 495 



(1865) ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, p. 335 [Port Denison] ; id. P. Z. S. 



1877, p. 348 [N.E. Queensland]; Latjard, Ibis, 1888, p. 492 



[New Caledonia]. 

 Graculus fuscicoUis, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 181 [part]. 

 Carbo squamatus, Mus. Vindob. 318., fide v. Pelz. Ibis, 1873, p. 124. 

 Microcarbo sulcirostris, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 365 (1874) ; id. Ann. 



Mtis. Civ. Genov. x. p. 166 (1877) [Sorong] ; id. Orn. Pap. iii. 



p. 408 (1882) ; id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xviii. p. 403 (1883) 



[Halmahera, Ceram, Aru] ; Everett, J. Sir.' B. As. Soc. Benq. 



no. XX. p. 188 (1889) [S. Borneo]. 

 Phalacrocorax purpuragula, Sharpe, Voy. Erebus ^ Terror, Birds 



App. p. 34 (1875). 



Adult in breeding-plumage. Head, neck, lower back, rnmp, upper 

 tail-coverts, and underparts brownish black, with a dull oil-green 

 gloss ; upper back, wing-coverts, and scapulars ash, each feather 

 with a moderately wide black border ; a number of white plumules 

 on each side of the head above the eye and scattered here and there 

 on the neck ; a small tuft of rather long, narrow white feathers behind 

 the ear. Tail composed of 12 feathers. Iris deep green ; bill 

 lead-colour, with the culmen black, and the under mandible finely 

 and irregularly lined with a darker shade of lead-colour ; skin 

 surrounding the eye and gular pouch brownish black, the latter 

 strongly tinged with blue ; legs and feet black. Total length about 

 25 inches, culmen l"6-l-8, wing 9'5-10'4, tail 4'7-5-5, tarsus 1'7- 

 1-8, outer toe and claw 2-9-3, 



Adult in non-breeding plumage. Similar to the above, but the 

 white plumules on the head and neck are absent. 



Immature birds, apparently in the second year's plumage, diSer 

 from the a'dult in having the head, neck, and underparts brownish 

 black, and the upper back, scapulars, and wing-coverts deep brownish 

 grey, less distinctly margined with brownish black. 



Hob. Coasts of Australia, ranging east to New Zealand, Norfolk 

 Island, and New Caledonia, north to New Guinea, the Moluccas, 

 Java, and South Borneo. 



Wallace Coll. 

 Old Coll. 

 Capt. Sturt [P.]. 

 Earl of Derby [P.]. 

 Capt. Bowyev Bower 

 [P.]. 



Salviu-Godman CoU. 



Australian Mus. [P.l 

 Australian Mus. [P.l. 

 Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



