from New Zealand and adjacent Islands. 567 



November 1883. Some of the old birds shot and examined 

 contained half-digested eels, but no trout." 



59. Phalacrocorax punctatus (Sparrm.). 

 Phalacrocorax punctatus Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. 



p. 354 (1898). 



a-c. c? ? immature. Taumaki I., off Hokitika, west 

 coast of South Island, N.Z., 25th February, 1902. 



d-i. <$ adult et immature. Taumaki I., 2nd April, 1901. 



k. Immature. Snares Is., 7th January, 1902. 



/, m. Adult. Macquarie Is., 14th January, 1902. 



The Spotted Shag has the iris green, the skin round the eye 

 blue, bright blue-green on the lores and sides of the face, 

 the gular pouch dark blue, the bill brownish-yellow tinged 

 with pinkish on the lower mandible, the tarsi and feet orange- 

 yellow (F. W. Hut ton). 



60. Phalacrocorax featherstoxi Buller. 

 Phalacrocorax featherstoni Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. 



p. 356 (1898). 



The Chatham-Island Shag was not procured. 



61. Phalacrocorax chalconotus (G. R. Gray). 

 Phalacrocorax chalconotus Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. 



p. 369 (1898). 



a, b. $ adult. Stewart I., New Zealand, 17th January, 

 1901. 



Gray's Shag has the iris brown, the ring of naked skin 

 round eye blue, the lores and sides of face covered with short 

 sooty-black plumes, the bill pale brown, the tarsi and feet 

 flesh-colour (orange-yellow in dry skins) (F. W. Hutton). 



Mr. Richard Henry, writing from Pigeon Island, Dusky 

 Bay, states that " this species is scarce, and thinly distributed 

 along the coast-line, where perhaps one may be met with in 

 about every twenty miles. A large rookery of this species 

 is situated on the east side of Te Auau, within a mile of the 

 head of the Lake. There used to be two or three hundred 

 birds there in a season, but many have recently been shot 



