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41. PrOCELLARIA CAPENSIS, L. 



Common ou the coast. 



4)2. Prion turtur, Soland. 



Several specimens. 



Egg white. Length 1'7 inch.; breadth 1-25. 



43. Prion vittatus, Gml. 



Several specimens. Length 12 inches ; wing 8*25 ; tarsus 1*3 ; 

 bill from gape 1"6; breadth 0*87. 



Egg white : length 2 inches; breadth 1'5, 



This is probably the very broad-billed variety mentioned by 

 Mr. Gould at the end of his description of this bird in his ' Hand- 

 book to the Birds of Australia;^ but I hardly think that it is 

 entitled to rank as a separate species. 



44. Thalassidroma marina (Lath.). 

 Several specimens. 



45. Thalassidroma nereis, Gould. 

 One specimen. 



46. Graculus carbo, L. 

 One specimen. 



47. Graculus carunculatus, Gm. 



A few specimens. As soon as the breeding-season is over, the 

 back becomes brown, with a broad transverse white band. 



48. Graculus africanus, Gm. 



Head, neck, throat, lower part of back, thighs, vent, and over 

 the tail dark blue or green-black ; upper back and wing- coverts 

 greenish bronzy-brown, each feather with a black apex ; breast 

 and abdomen grey : quills and tail brownish black ; head crested 

 and neck ornamented with white feathers in the breeding-season. 

 Bill dark; legs and feet yellowish orange. Length 19 inches; 

 wing 9'5 ; bill from gape 2*75 ; tarsus 2. Both sexes alike. This 

 Cormorant is also found in New Zealand, but is very rare ; for I 

 have seen portions of the skin of a bird shot at the Wade, near 

 Auckland, which 1 have now been able to identify with this 

 species. 



