388 PHALACEOCORACID^. 



middle of the interscapular region, lower back, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, and thighs glossed with dark bluish green ; sides of the 

 upper back, wing-coverts, and scapulars dull bronze-green, with 

 narrow margins of darker greenish blue; chin and throat, base of 

 fore-neck, and rest of underparts pure white ; a patch of white 

 plumes above the ej^e and scattered here and there on the neck ; 

 quills and tail-feathers brownish black. Tail composed of 12 

 feathers. Total length about 30 inches, culmen 2-85-2*9, depth to 

 cutting-edge 0-35, wing 11-4-11-8, tail 4-3-4-5, tarsus 2-55-2-66, 

 outermost toe and claw 3*7— 4. 



Viv adult ill non-hreedlng plumaije. Similar to the above, but 

 the head and neck with a dull greenish gloss, much the same as 

 that on the lower back and rump ; sides of the back, wing-coverts, 

 and scapulars of a more brownish bronze, and with much less 

 gloss, the darker margins being also much less conspicuous. 



Hab. Pacific coast of South America ; Peru and Chili. 



a. Ad. sk. Valparaiso. Mr. A. Bartlett [E.]. 



d. Vix ad. sk. Valparaiso. Sir W. Burnett & Capt. 



Fitzroy, Pt.N. [P.]. 



25. Phalacrocorax magellanicus. 



Matrellanic Shap-, Lnth. Gen. Spi. iii. pt. ii. p. B04 (1785) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. B. X. p. 430 (182-i). 

 Pelecanus magellanicus, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 576 (1788) ; Lath. 



Incl. Oni. ii. p. 889 (1790) ; Bonnat. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 51 



(1790) ; Forst. Icon. ined. pi. 105. 

 Hydrocorax magellanicus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. viii. p. 87 



■(1817). 

 Hvdrocorax leucoo-aster, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vni. p. 90 



0817) [Russia !]. 

 Phalacrocorax magellanicus, Stejih. in Shaiv's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. 



p. 89 (1826) ; G.R. Gray, List of B. pt. iii. p. 186 (1844) ; Jacq. <§• 



Pucher. Vol/. Pole Sud, iii. p. 128 (1853) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, 



p. 391 ; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 167 [Falkland Is.] ; Sclat. 4- Salvin, 



Ibis, 1870, p. 499 [Port Cburruca] ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 11 



[Sti-aits of JSIagellan] ; Oustal. Miss. Cap Horn, vi. Zool. p. B. 



150 [part] (1891). 

 Phalacrocorax sarmientonus, King, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 30 [Straits of 



Magellan]. 

 Phalacrocorax erythrops, Kinff, P. Z S. 1831, p. 30 [Straits of 



Maarellaul. 

 Cavholeucotis, Cuv., Lesson, Tr«tVefZ"Or«. p. 604(1831) [Falkland Is.]. 

 Cormoran masellanique, Hombr. ^- Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, All. Ois. 



pi. 31 his (1842-53). 

 Graculus magellanicus, Gay, Hist. Chili, Zool. i. p. 492 (1847) ; Schl. 



Mas. Pai/s-Bas, vi. Peiec. p. 21 (1863) [nee " d "] ; G. R. Gray, 



Hand-l. P. iii. p. 128 (1871). 

 Graculus sarmientonus, Gay, Hist. Chili, Zool. i. p. 490 (1847). 

 Urile magellanicus, Bonap. Consp. Ao.]i. 177 (1855) ; Ridgio. P. U.S. 



Nat. Mm. xii. p. 139 (1889) [San Martin I.]. 

 Phalacrocorax meutalis, Temni., Bonap. Consp. Av. ii. p. 175 (1855) 



[juv. only]. 



