NATATORES. 493 



plumage of the upper surface tiuged with brown, and the 

 white of the neck clouded and mottled with the same colour. 



Forehead, crown of the head, back of the neck, and rump 

 greenish black; back and wing-coverts deep green, each 

 feather narrowly margined with black ; primaries and secon- 

 daries black ; throat, front and sides of the neck, and all the 

 under surface white ; bill and feet black ; naked skin at the 

 base of the bill and round the eye purple ; irides green. 



Total length 26 inches ; bill 3 ; wing llj ; tail 5f ; tarsi 2^. 



Sp. 655. PHALACROCORAX MELANOLEUCUS. 

 Little Cormorant. 



Pelecanus melanoleucus, Vieill. 3nd Edit, du Nouv. Diet. d^Hist. Nat., 



torn. viii. p. 88. 



dimidiatus, Cuv. 



Phalacrocorax flavirhynchus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part v. p. 157. 

 Gracalus melanoleucits, G. R. Gray, Zool. of Voy. of Ereb. and Terr., 



Birds, sp. 20. 

 Caj'bo dimidiatus, Temm. 



Hypoleucus melanoleucus, Reich. Syst. Av., tab. 63. figs. 872, 873. 

 Haliceus melanoleucus, Bonap. Compt. Rend, de FAcad. Sci., torn. xli. 



1856. 

 Go-yo-go, Aborigines of the lowland districts of Western Australia. 

 Little Shag, Colonists of Swan River. 



Phalacrocorax melanoleucus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., 

 vol. vii. pi. 70. 



This Cormorant is dispersed over every part of Australia, 

 wherever a locality suitable for its existence occurs, but is no- 

 where very abundant. It evinces a greater preference for deep 

 armlets of the sea, inland rivers and lagoons, than for the rocky 

 shores of the coast. Both in Tasmania and New South Wales 

 and also in South Australia, I observed it far inland, wher- 

 ever there was sufficient water to afford it a supply of food, a 

 solitary individual, or at most a single pair, being all that was 

 to be seen in any one district ; here it may be seen perched 



