396 PnALACROCORACID^. 



m. Inim. sk. Fort Chalmers, South Island, Baron A. von Hiigel 



Feb. [P.]. 



71. 5 imm. sk. Invercarffill, South Island, Baron A. von Hiigel 

 Dec. 26. [P.]. 



o. Skull. Hardy Bay, New Zealand. ' Challenger ' Exped. 



30. Phalacrocorax gouldi. (Fig. 8.) 



Phaiacrocorax lencogaster, Guidd {nee Vieill.), P. Z. S. 1837, p. 156 



[N. S. Wales] ; id. Sy?i. B. Atistr., App. p. 7 (1838) [N. S. Wales] ; 



id. B. Austr. vii. p'l. 69 (1843) ; G.R. Gray, Lid of B. pt. iii. 



p. 187 (1844) [Tasmania] ; Gould, Randb.B. Austr. ii. p. 492 (1865). 

 Graculus iQWCo^nstev, Reichenb.Natatores, pi. xxxv. figs. 875-6 (1850) ; 



Schl. Mu.'<. rays-Bu.'i, vi. Pelec. p. 20 (1863); G. B. Gray, Hand-l. B. 



iii. p. 128 (1871); Ravisay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 203 (1877); 



id. Tab. List Av^tr. B. p. 25 (18«8); North, Nests i,- Eggs Austr. 



B. p. 366 (1889) ; Le Souef, Ibis, 1895, p. 421 [Albatros I., Bass 



Straits]. 

 Hypoleucus leucogaster, Beicheiib., Bonap). Consp. Ai\ ii. p. 173 



(1855). 

 Hypoleucus gouldi, Salvad. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 413 (1882J ; id. Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Gmiov. x\m. p. 404 (1883) [Louisiade Archipelago]. 



Yig.9>.— P. gouldi. 



Adult in breeding-phtmar/e. Top of the head, back of the neck, 

 middle of the upper back, lovrer back, rump, npper tail-coverts, and 

 flanks black, glossed with dull steel-blue ; sides of the upper back, 

 scapulars, and wing-coverts glossed with dull oil-green, each feather 

 narrowly boi-dered with black ; sides of the head, chin, throat, 

 and underparts pure white ; quills and tail-feathers brownish black 

 with some greenish gloss. The feathering is continued along the 

 lower mandible for some distance beyond the commissure of the bill. 

 Back of the neck ornamented with numerous white plumules, and 

 there are a few scattered feathers of the same sort on the back and 

 flanks. These are absent in the non-breeding season. " Iris green ; 

 bill and feet black ; naked skin at the base of the bill and round 

 the eye purple " (Gould). Total length about 24 inches, culmen 



