from Sen} Zealand cud adjacent Islands. 569 



species in New Zealand waters, representing as it docs the 

 South-American type, with the feathers on the chin not 

 extending beyond a vertical line drawn from the anterior 

 margin of the eye. 



64. Phalacrocorax carunculatus (Gmel.). 



Phalacrocoraoc carunculatus Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xxvi. p. 381, fig. 3 (1898). 



a, b. Adult. White Rocks, Cook's Straits, New Zealand, 

 14th July, 1902. 



c. ? adult. Brothers I., 29th April, 1901. 



The adult female has the iris sea-green, the ring of skin 

 round the eye brilliant peacock-blue, the wattles bright 

 orange, the bill brown, and the feet yellowish-green. 



The Cook-Straits Cormorant, the largest of the white- 

 breasted forms, is new to the British Museum Collection, and 

 is certainly one of the most valuable of the birds presented 

 by Lord Ranfurly. 



The female from the Brothers I., the only specimen in 

 which the sex has been ascertained, shews no trace of white 

 on the outer scapulars, and only one feather on the lower 

 back is white. 



My description of this species in the ' Catalogue of Birds/ 

 taken from examples in Mr. Rothschild's Museum killed on 

 4th February, must be slightly modified. These latter shewed 

 no trace of a crest, but in the female procured on the 29th 

 April, mentioned above, there is a well-developed crest on 

 the middle of the crown about 1*7 inch in length. 



Two eggs of this species taken on the White Rocks on the 

 14th July, 1902, are of the ordinary Cormorant-type, and 

 measure respectively 2*7 by 1*68 and 2*53 by 17 inches. 



Regarding the difficulties in procuring specimens of this 

 extremely local species, Lord Ranfurly writes on the 20th of 

 December, 1901 : — " I shall try and get you some more 

 specimens of the Cook-Straits Cormorant. I have been to 

 the only rock on which they are found four times, but the 

 sea has always been too rough." On the 20th July, 1902, he 

 writes again: — "This Shag is only to be found on one rock 



