1. PHALACROCORAX. 403 



Microcarbo iiiger, Bonap. Consp. Av. ii. p. 180 (18o5). 



Graculus nielanooimtlius, G. R. Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 129 (1871) ; 



Hume, Nests 4'- Er/gs Intl. B. p. 060 (1873) ; id. Sir. F. i. p. 289 



(1873) [Sind] ; Adam, Sir. F. i. p. 403 (1873) [Sanibhur Lake] ; 



Hume, Str. F. ii. p. -184 (1874) [Teuasseiim] ; Lloyd, Ibis, 1870, 



p. 280 [Kattiawar]. 

 Microcarbo pygmseus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 366 (1874); Everett, 



Str. Br. aI Soc. Beng. no. xx. p. 188 (1889) [Borneo]. 

 Plialacrocorax melanognatlius, Butler, Str. F. vii. p. 190 (1878) 



[Sind]. 



Adult in hreeiiing-plumacie. General colour shining black witb a 

 slight greenish gloss ; feathers of the upper back with shining black 

 shafts ; the scapulars and wing-coverts silver}- grey changing to 

 dark ashy-grey, each feather much pointed and bordered with black ; 

 a line of scattered white plumes, commencing above and in front of 

 the eye and continued along the sides of the head ; top of the head 

 and back of the neck with white hair-like filaments ; the black 

 feathers on the occiput and back of the neck considerably elongate 

 and forming a kind of mane. Tail composed of 12 feathers. Bill 

 brown, livid purple in the breeding-season ; naked skin round eyes 

 and on throat as well as the legs blackish, livid in summer. Total 

 length about 22 inches, culmen l-lo-l"25, wing ""o-S, tail 5-2-5'4, 

 tarsus 1"35, outer toe and claw 2*35. 



Adult in non-breedini/ 2:)lum,age. Similar to the above, but the 

 feathers bordering the naked gular patch are white, the white 

 filaments on the head and neck are absent, and the feathers on the 

 occiput and back of the neck are much less elongate than in the 

 breeding bird. 



In worn specimens the silvery grey on the scapulars and wing- 

 coverts nearly disappears, and the feathers are of a uniform blackish- 

 grey tint. 



Nestling. Head naked ; neck, middle of upper back, lower back, 

 and underparts covered with very dark smoky-brown down ; wing- 

 coverts and scapulars dark grey, margined with black ; half-grown 

 quills pointed and narrowly margined with brownish white ; a line 

 of feathers down the middle of the lower back black, with a slight 

 dark greenish gloss ; a similar line down the middle of the breast 

 deep brownish black with a slight gloss. 



Immature in Jirst plumarie. Head, neck, and underparts dark 

 brown, darkest on the back of the neck and flanks ; chin and 

 throat whitish ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brownish 

 black with a slight gloss ; scapulars and wing-coverts dark ashy- 

 grey, much like those of the adult, but very narrowly fringed with 

 pale brownish. 



Hah. India, Ceylon, and the Indo-Burmese countries, southward 

 through the Malay Peninsula to Java and Borneo. 



a. Imm. sk. Rohri Dist., North Sind, Nov. 19 Hume Coll. 



(.4. O. H.). 

 h. (S imm. sk. Mado Mehur, N. Sind, Jan. 20 Hume Coll. 



[A. O. H). 

 c. $ imm. sk. Manchar Lake. Hume Coll 



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