from New Zealand and adjacent Islands. 571 



lasted for a little while, then they came to the surface, having 

 often caught the fish. One of the Shags I was watching 

 from a little cliff caught five parrot-fish in about half an hour ; 

 they were probably each two or three ounces in weight and 

 evidently sufficient for the time." 



67. Phalacrocorax ranfurlyi Grant. 



Phalacrocorax ranfurlyi Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xi. no. lxxx. 

 p. 66 (1901). 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to P. stewarti, but at 

 once distinguished by the absence of the wide white band 

 across the rump (only suggested in the type specimen by one 

 white feather on each side), and by the very different colour 

 of the naked skin on the face. " Iris pale brown, naked skin 

 round the eye and gular pouch bright orange, legs and feet 

 flesh-colour" (F. W. Hutton). 



Adult males and females collected by Commander J. P. 

 Rolleston, of H.M.S. ' Archer/ have the soft parts carefully 

 recorded as follows : — " Iris brown, ring round eye purple ; 

 lores scarlet with black spots (? the minute black plumes) ; 

 gular pouch scarlet, merging into orange near the bill ; legs 

 and feet light flesh-colour." 



Total length about 27 inches j culmen from feathers on fore- 

 head to tip 2'4 ; wing 11*2; tail 53 ; tarsus 2 # 6 ; outermost 

 toe and claw 4"4. 



A young bird (15th January, 1903) in first plumage has 

 the fore-neck sooty-brown, with a white patch on the throat, 

 and in this stage of plumage somewhat resembles the im- 

 mature of P. campbelli. 



A rather more advanced bird (15th January, 1901) has 

 the fore-neck white, mottled with brown. 



Eyes brown, lores and skin round eye reddish-brown, 

 gular pouch crimson, legs and feet flesh-colour (J. P. 

 Rolleston) . 



The young in first plumage has the iris pale brown, skin 

 round eye and lores brown, gular pouch grey, and the bill 

 and feet brownish- flesh-colour (F. W. H. §■ J. P.R.). 



An older bird (16th July, 1901) has the fore-neck white, 



