32G ril AI \i l:ni iiilArlD*. 



little success. The late Mi. |. |. Hiulci, oi ■ I ;i , hjkshy,' who possessed also an estate, ' liashan' 

 at Lake licho, informed me that maiiv vi-,u ,i;o In- found them breedin<^ on an island in that 

 lake. Subsequent visits to the islanil, hm'., ., m. pnned that they had ceased to do so. Mr. J. 

 L. Butler, however, found several nests •■n li). I pper Dervvent River, near Lake St. Clair,, and 

 I have seen what remained of a set he s'' und. I he exact measurements I regret to say I did 

 not olitain, but they appeared about tin- -,ini, -i.e as those of the Plialaciwordx laicogastcv, but 

 rather tliicker in proportion to their lrii.;lli." 



The egLjs are three to live in ii;i':ili.-i l.u a sitting, elonj^'ate oval in foi m, tapering 

 gently towards the smaller end, whit h in .;ii.- .[hm imens are rather pointed. 'I'hey are of a 

 uniform pale bluish-white, thickly ami mu.h i.nr^lily coated with a limy covering, and frequently 

 present a roughened surface as if thc\ linl In ni siratched when the lime was soft by the feet of 

 the sitting bird, and often they an ii'- 1 st.iiiicd. .\ set of three in Mr. George Savidge's 

 collection, taken on the 25th July, i -"/ 1, .ii < 1.1. Ion I^rook- Station, on the Upper Clarence River, 

 New South Wales, measures: — I,fii-tii i \ . "i; x 1-47 inches; (0)2-33 ^ 1-49 inches: (C) 

 2-38 X 1-5 inches. .A set of two in tin \ 11 .1 1 .ili, in Museum Collection measures: — Length (A) 

 2-45 X 1-6 inches: (B) 2-47 x i-^s i'" '"'■ ^ ^' t of two in the Macleay Museum measures: — 

 Length (A) 2'3S x 1-45 inches: (Hi "i; ■ ri'S inches. 



Young birds resemble the adult . I ni ,11. (■\ erywhere much darker in colour, the feathers 

 of the head, neck and under paits ai' lnown ,iiul have many dull white feathers on the neck, 

 centre of the breast and abdomen. \\ mil; i j-^ iiirhes. 



July until the end of CJctohei c on luiut - ihr usual breeding season in Eastern .Australia, 

 September to the end of Decemlu-i in I ,i-iii,iiiia. 



Phalacrocorax sulcirostris. 



1.1 I ri,i: 111, M'K r(ii;..MOKANT. 

 Carbo sulfiruntris, Brandt, Bull. .\. ;,il. Si. j '.trrsl)., Vol. ]M., p. 5G (18o7). 



r/mlacrucura.i; iiu/cirofifri^, Ooulil, r>ils. Aii^ir.fnl. Vol. VIL, pi. G7 (1848); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 

 Bds. lirit. iMus,, Vol. .\ \ \' I , p, :;7'i 1 IsitS); Sharpe, Hand-1. Bds., Vol. 1., p. 2.'.:3 (1899). 



r/ia/dcrorora.r s/.kldci ji/ia/ IIS, (iciiM, lliii.lhl;, IMs. Au.str., Vol. II., p. 495 (1865). 



Adult .malk. (in breeding; iilinnaji-). '.'■ «- ral colour above and lielow black, ylonsnl ivi/h green ; 

 featliers of the upper back, llir sr,i/,ii/,irs mn/ all bat tin- smaller upper ann.g-coverts ashi/-grei/ margined 

 with black; li til -feat hers dull lil<i<-l mi lln rroiva, of /hi' hi ad and ap/nir /lorttuit of Ihe hiad-ni/ck are 

 a number of small ichite feal/nis m ^inin- lliose on tlie head are confined to a broadband over the 

 eye ; bill dark gri'y, culmen mid /i/i hlnrk : legs and feej black ; iris dark green. Total length in the 

 ^ftesh 2o inches, iring 111, tail n. /■■// li 5, tarstis l'7o. 



Adult femai.k (in breiilmL; plumage). — Siniilar in pliiiuni/r to the male. 



Distribution. — North western Australia, Northern Territory of South Australia, Queensland, 

 New South Wales, \'ictoria, South Australia, Western .Australia, Tasmania. 



^IaN favourable situations the Little Black Cormorant is generally distributed o\er the greater 

 Jl. portion of the coast line of Australia, and it frequents the rivers and lakes of the inland 

 portions of the States, its range e.xtending to New Guinea, the ^Moluccas, Java and Borneo. 



To give an account of its habits, food, and niditication would only be to repeat what has 

 already been written of the preceding species, from which it may be principally distinguished 

 by its smaller size and tiie absence of the white patch on each side of the thanks. Like I'hala- 

 crocovax carbo it loses the narrow white feathers after the breeding season is over, and there is a 

 difference in the wing-measurement of some specimens, varying from nine to ten inches in length. 



