PUALACROCORAX. 



_ In the neighbourhood of Sydney, New South Wales, it ,s very connnon, and ,s often seen 

 u. con.pa„y w.th the Little Black and White Cormorant (P!,nlaa-o.on,r ,n,.,..,Una., ' It may b 

 seen frequently on sandbanks and piles ,n the Parramatta, George and Cook R vers also on 

 e shores of Botany Bay, Port Hacking, and Dee Why and Xarrabeen Lagoons. Some of 

 the speomens „i the Austrahan Museum Collection were obtained by the late Mr. I A Thorpe 

 .n the Cen.enma, Pari Kandwick, while others were procured at Balmain. I hav me't with it 

 nlandontheNamo,,Gwydir,andCastlereagh Rivers, and at the watercourse into which the 

 ( .wydu- Ru.r spreads over, about nine or ten miles north of ^roree. It ,s also very numerous 

 among the bays and mlets of Port Stephens. 



^^ Mr George Savicfge writes me as follows fron, Copmanhursl, Upper Clarence River :- 



Ihe Lutle Black Cun.orant ( Pkalaa.cora. sninrostns) ,s the con.monest species I have 



observed at . am a. at the mouth of the Clarence River ; I have also seen it in large colonies 



n the waters ot the Upp.r Clarence, and have been surprised by the way they rush through th 

 an, wlHle stand„,g at some corner waiting for Ducks to pass. At Yamba I have seen very lar^e 



1" h;aTs'of"'"n '^7"'^::"'''''' -^^ '^ --^^ '- "^---d %.ng ,ow over the water searching 

 or shoals o small trsh. When a shoal is found the birds drop down in all directions amongst 

 them, and the scene ,s very hvely for a time, the hsh jumping out of the water in all directions 

 pnrsue by the b.rds, and which the latter sometimes catch in the air. When the. hun' r i 

 sat.shed they perch m scores on the viaducts that run over the training walls. I have neve^been 

 successtuMn locatn,g then- breedmg haunts, although no doubt they are not far away the 



our from the ,rds n,ay be smelt a long distance away. It always reminds n,e of the LZl 

 place of the English Starling." loobting 



Mr K.N. Atkinson writes me fron. Tasmania:-! have never met with PM,a.co.ax 



1 Imdei s Island, Lass Strait, on the 2oth October, 1909." 



The eggs are usually tive, sometimes si.K, in nun,ber for a sitting, oval or an ellipse in form 

 son.e being very much lengthened, of a pale blue or greenish-white colour, which slal y 



set. A e of hse taken by Mr. S. Robinson on Buckiinguy Station, near Nyn.^an New 

 South Wales, on the :4th October, 1903, measures as follows. -Length (A) . x • ^^ .'.cheT 

 L t.9. X t.5 inches; (C) .y, x ..., inche. ; (D) .03 x t.^^inches; (E) . Tt"; 

 (l)aruniegg,i-37 x 0-93 inches. A set of five taken m the same locality on the 26th October 

 190J, measures:— Length (A) I-Q7 X r? inches ■/ R^ t.-q ■ , ^ v/ccooer, 



• , ,,,; - ^ ; ^ y/ X I 3 incnes, (B) i-yb x 1-23 inches; (C) vqz x 1-27 



.nches; (D) i-Si x 1-27 inches; (E) 2 x 1-2 inches. M 7 9- x i 2, 



Phalacrocorax gouldi. 



WHITK-BEEASTED CORMORANT. 

 ;'../«.,.c..^ /e...,,.^.,, Gould (,.,. Vieill), Proc. Zool. 80c., 1S37, p. 150 ; ij., Bd.. Austr., fol. 



Vol. VII., p,. 09 (isi.s); i,l,^ Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. IL, p. 492 (186.5). 

 Hypoleuc, yoxddi, Salvad., Orn. Pap. et Molucc, Part HI., p. 41-3 (1882). 

 Phalacrocorax goiddi, Ogilvie-Grant, Oat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 39G (1898). 



Adult male _" Forrhead, crow., of the head, hack of the neck and rump greemsh-black ; hack 

 c..dn,^..y-co.erts de.p green, each feather narroa^ly margined a-Uk black ..• primaries and secondaries 

 black; throat, JnnU and s^d.. of the neck, and all the under su>:,ace nMte ; Ull and feH black ■ 

 Msk..atthebas. of the bUl and round th^ .ye ,n,;,l,. , ... ,recn. Total len,th 26 Les, u-ijg 

 ll--', lail -r^o, bdl .J, tarsus :2-35" (Gould) ' ' v 



Adult FEMALK.-.Vim/Var m phunage to the male. 



