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About June and July these Cormorants are again to 

 be seen in Walwich Bay, where they frequent the low 

 sands of the peninsula which protects the entrance of 

 the bay ; but no accumulation of guano takes place in 

 that locality, as their usual resting-places are flooded 

 when the tide is high. 



This species feeds on fish, and sometimes on mussels. 



The iris is sea-green, the eyelids studded with small 

 beads of cobalt-blue ; the beak more or less brown, the 

 bare skin under the bill and at the gape orange ; the legs, 

 webs, and toes black. 



426. Graculus neglectus, Wahl. Wahlberg's Cormorant. 

 Graculus tieglectiis, Wahlberg, in Joum. fiir Orn. 1857, p. 4. 

 „ „ Gray's Hand-list of Bii-ds, No. 11121. 



[As this Cormorant was discovered by the late Professor 

 Wahlberg on the rocky islands adjacent to the coast of Great 

 Namaqua Land, it may rightly claim to be included in the present 

 volume. 



Mr. Andersson does not appear to have been personally ac- 

 quainted with this species, although he refers in his MS. notes 

 to Walilberg^s description of it ; and no examples of it have come 

 under my own notice ; but I think it probable that it may be 

 the Cormorant with twelve rectrices mentioned by Mr. Layard 

 in ' The Ibis ' for 1868, p. 121, as having been obtained in two 

 instances in the vicinity of Cape Town. 



These specimens were supposed by Mr. Layard to be referable 

 to G. carbo ; but that species has fourteen rectrices, a peculiarity 

 which, according to Professor Schlegel (Museum des Pays-Bas, 

 Pelecani, p. 4), is only shared by G. lucidus and G. capensis, the 

 number of rectrices in all other Cormorants being but twelve. 



The following is a translation of the account given by Professor 

 Wahlberg {loc. cit.) of the present species : — 



" Greenish black, but cinereous brown on the liack, with 



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