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low! it. commences much nearer the median line of the throat. There 

 is a Avell-developeil crest, which generally appears to have a tendency 

 to curl forward, a thin patch of white hair-like feathers above and 

 behind the eye. Nasal caruncles well-developed, white alar bar 

 moderately so, and the white dorsal patch is always wanting. Tail 

 composed of 12 feathers. Total length about 27 inches, culmen 

 from feathers on forehead to tip 2'3, deiith to cutting-edge U'35, 

 wing 11 '3, tail 5'3, tarsus 2'5, outermost toe and claw 4. 



One example, with a fairly well-developed crest and nasal 

 caruncles, has no trace of the white alar bar ; apparently this 

 specimen, though mature, is not a very old bird. 



Adult in non-hreeJi>iij plumage. Similar to the above, but the 

 crest and the patch of white feathers behind the eye are absent, 

 and the plumage of the upper parts less brilliant. 



Hah. Extreme south of South America and Palklaud Islands. 



a, b. Ad. et vix Falkland Islands (Leconte). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. Falkland Islands. Tweeddale Coll. 



d, e. Ad. sk. et Falkland Islands. Antarctic Exped. 



St. 



/. cS ad. sk. Berkeley Sound, E. McCormick Bequest. 



Falklands, Aug. 3 {li. 

 McCormick) 

 (/. Ad. sk. PortSt. Julian, Patagonia. Sir W. Burnett & 



Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. 

 [P.]. 

 /(. 5 inim. sk. Tom Bay, Straits of Ma- Dr. Coppinger [C.]. 

 gellan, April 4. 



28. Phalacrocorax verrucosus. (Fig. 6, p. 391.) 



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



p. 180 (1844) [specs, d-k]. 

 Graculus caruuculatus, Coues ^- Kidder (nee Gmel.), Bull. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. ii. p. 7 (1875), iii. p. 8 (1876) [Kerguelen] ; Schl. Mtis. 



Pays-Bas, vi. Pelec. p. 20 (1863) [part] ; ? Finsch, J. f. O. 1870, 



p. 375 [Crozette Is.]. 

 Halieus (Ilypoleucus) verrucosus, Cab. J.f. 0. 1875, p. 540, 1876, 



pi. i. fig. 1 [Kerguelen]. 

 Phalacrocorax verrucosus, Sdater Sf Salvin, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 652 



[Betsy Cove, Kerguelen]; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 310 [eggs]; 



Sharpe, Phil. Tran.9. extra vol. 168. p. 149 (1879) [Kerguelen] ; 



>Sclat. !■ Salv. Voy. Chall, Zool. pt. viii. p. 122, pi. xxvi. (1880) ; 



Studer, Forschunr/sr. '■Gazelle,'' iii. p. 103, pi. 15 (1889) ; Forbes, 



Ibis, 1893, pp. 535, 540. 



Adult in breeding-plumage. Practically similar to P. alhiventer, 

 but the black on the sides of the head is continued downwards in a 

 narrow band which runs between the white throat and the naked 

 skin and extends halfway towards the middle line of the throat. 

 None of the specimens shows any trace of a white alar bar. The 

 bird described appears to be fully adult and in the most complete 

 breeding-plumage. Tail composed of 12 feathers. Total length 



