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Zealand]; Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. i. pp. 386, 395 (1876) 

 [Port Moresby], ii. p. 203 (1877), iii. p. 302 (1878) [Laloki RJ, 

 iv. p. 102 (1879) ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 349 [AustraUa & S.E. 

 New Guinea]; Biggies, B. Anstr. ii. pi. 121 (1877); Buller, 

 Man. B. N. Zeal. p. 97 (1882) ; Sahad. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 406 

 (1882) [S.E. New Guinea] ; Tristratn, Ibis, 1886, p. 41 ; Buller, 

 B.N. Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 175 (1888) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Anstr. B. 

 p. 24 (1888) ; North, Nests \ Eggs B. Austr. p. 363 (1889) ; id. 

 Rec. Austr. Mus. i. p. 147 (1891) [eggs]. 



Plotus melanogaster, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, vi. Pelec. p. 26 (1863) 

 [part]. 



Anhinga novae hollandiae, Hartert, Kat. Mus. Senckenb. p. 236 

 (1891). 



Adult male. General colour glossy black, brownish on the crown 

 and back of the neck ; a wide white stripe commencing below the 

 eve and extending for about four inches down each side of the 

 neck ; a rather wide band of white feathers bordering the bare 

 throat ; an elongate patch of chestnut about 4 inches long on the 

 basal part of the fore-neck ; sides of the upper back, scapulars, 

 wing-coverts, and inner secondaries with elongate white shaft- 

 stripes ; the scapulars are much shorter than in the Indian and 

 African species — the longest not exceeding 4 inches ; the inner- 

 most secondaries and middle pair of tail-feathers transversely 

 ribbed. Tail composed of 12 feathers. A dull- orange buff ring 

 round the pupil, succeeded by a second ring of marbled brown 

 and buff, which is bounded by an outer circle of orange-buff; 

 naked skin at the base of the lower mandible wrinkled and yellow ; 

 upper mandible olive, under mandible dull yellow, both becoming 

 brighter towards the base ; feet yellowish flesh-colour, becoming 

 brown on the upper part of the outer toes. Total length about 31 

 inches, culmeu from feathers on forehead 2-8-3, wing 13-2-14, 

 tail 8-4-9, tarsus 1-9, outer toe and claw 3-2-3-4. 



Adult female. General colour brown above, white below ; top of 

 the head, back of the neck, and middle of the upper back brown, 

 each feather margined with whitish and producing a finely mottled 

 appearance ; the wide white stripe on each side of the neck is 

 present as in the male, but bordered on either side by black bands 

 which unite, and extend towards the base of the neck for about an 

 inch beyond the white ; rest of the upper parts like those of the 

 male ; entire underparts white. Iris buff, latticed with brown ; 

 naked skin at the base of the bill and throat orange-yellow; feet 

 pale yellow. Total length about 29 inches, culmen from feathers 

 on foVehead 2-9-3, wing 13-5-13-9, tail 8-9, tarsus 1*7, outer toe 

 and claw 3-2-3-3. 



The immature male resembles the female, but the feathers of the 

 top of the head, back of the neck, and upper back are brown without 

 conspicuous white margins ; there is a rufous patch towards the 

 base of the fore-neck, and some of the white feathers of the chest 

 and breast are tipped with black ; the innermost scapulars and 

 middle tail-feathers are indistinctly rayed. 



The immature female resembles the adult female, but the outer 



