392 PHALACROCOEACID^. 



marks between the ej'e and angle of the gape orange ; legs and 

 feet scarlet (Darvnn). Total length about 29 inches, culmen from 

 feathers on forehead to tip 2-4, depth to cutting-edge 0-4, wing 11 "3, 

 tail 5'2, tarsus 2-65, outermost toe and claw 4-1. 



In younger examples the dorsal patch is less developed or absent. 



There is a nearly adult specimen from South Georgia in the 

 Hothschild Museum which appears to belong to this species ; the bill 

 is, however, considerably shorter. In this specimen the alar bar 

 is present, but there is no trace of a white dorsal patch ; a fairly 

 long crest is making its appearance, while above and behind the eye 

 there are a few white scattered hair-like feathers, indicating that 

 the bird is in breeding-plumage. The South Georgia bird may prove 

 to be a distinct form, but without more material it is impossible to 

 form an opinion. Total length about 29 inches, culmen from feathers 

 on forehead to tip 2, depth to cutting-edge 35, wing 11-2, tail 5, 

 tarsus 2-5, outermost toe and claw 4. 



Hab. South-west coast of South America. ? South Georgia. 



a. S vix ad. sk. Dorral, Chili ( Weishaupi). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. (5 ad. sk. Island of Chiloe, Dec-Jan. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



[Reed). 



c. S ad. sk. Hale Cove Harbour, Mes- ' Challenger ' Exped. 



sier Channel, Jan. 2. 



d. Imm. sk. Straits of Magellan (Capt. The Admiralty [P.]. 



P. P. Kmg). 



e. Skull. Straits of Magellan. ' Challenger ' Exped. 



f. Skeleton Chili. Purchased. 

 (moimted). 



27. Phalacrocorax albiventer. (Fig. 7, p. 391.) 



Carbo albiventer, Les.mi, Trade d' Orn. p. G04 (1831) [Falkland Is.] ; 



Pucheran, Jtev. et Mag. Zool. ISoO, p. 627. 

 Phalacrocorax cirrhatus, G. R. Gray {nee Gmel.), List of B. pt. iii. 



p. 186 (1844) [specs, b, c, i]. 

 Graculus cirrhatus, G. R. Gray, Voy. Erebus Sf Terror, Birds, p. 19 



(1845). 

 Graculus albiventer, Gay, Hist. Chili, Zool. i. p. 491 (1847). 

 Urile purpura^^cens, Bonap Consp. Av. p. 177 (1855) 

 Phalacrocorax carunculatus, Sclater (nee Gmel.), P. Z. S. 1860, 



p. 391; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 166 [Falkland Is.]; Oustal. Miss. 



Cap Horn, vi. p. B. 144 [part], pi. vi. [front figure only] (1891). 

 Phalacrocorax alhiventris, Sclater, P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 310 [eggs] ; 



Sclater Sf Salv. Voy. Chall., Zool. pt. viii. p. 157, pi. xxv. ilg. 2 



(1880) ; Forbes, Ibis, 1893, pp. 635, 540. 

 Halieus verrucosus, Burmeist. {nee Cab.) An. Mns. Nac. Buenos 



Ayres, iii. entrega decimaquinta, p. 249 (1888) [Patagonia]. 

 Urile albiventer, Ridgw. P. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. p. 139 (1889) [San 



Martin I.]. 



Adult in full hrseding-plumage. Very similar in general appearance 

 to P. onsloivi, but the white band of feathers on the inter-ramal 

 region scarcely extends beyond a vertical line drawn from the angle 

 of the gape, and the purple-black of the sides of the head commences 

 almost in a line with the commissure of the biU, whereas in P. ons- 



