PHALACROCORAX NEGLECTUS. 779 
761. PHALAcRocoRAX LucIDus, Licht. South African Cormorant. 
Graculus carbo, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 380. 
Not so common as the lesser P. capensis, but still in considerable 
abundance. Its chief haunt is the rocky, lonely shore at the base 
of Cape Point. It breeds to the north-west, on the islands in 
Saldanha, St. Helena, and Walwich Bays, also on Dyer’s Island, off 
L’Agulhas. The eggs are bluish-green, covered with the usual 
chalky coating, much pointed at each end, and narrow for their 
length. Axis, 2” 8’; diam., 1” 8’. Mr. Rickard has met with it 
near Hast London. Senor Anchieta has also shot the species on the 
Coroca River. : 
Head and back of neck dark brown, with a tinge of rufous ; back, 
sides, and flanks black-green; wing-coverts and scapulars grey, 
edged with black-green, causing a scaled appearance, which is very 
beautiful ; tail black, slightly frosted with grey; chin, fore part of 
throat, and under parts pure white. Length, 27’; wing, 13’; tail, 
7’, fourteen feathers. 
762. Puatacrocorax necuEctus, Wahlb. Wahlberg’s Cormorant. 
We have not, to our actual knowledge, fallen in with this 
species unless the bird shot by ourselves and Commander Sperling 
in August, 1867, in Simon’s Bay (“ Ibis,” 1868, p. 121), may prove 
to belong to it. It is a species with twelve tail-feathers, which was 
discovered and described by the late Professor Wahlberg, but which 
did not occur to Mr. Andersson. Mr. Gurney has appended an 
account of it in the “ Birds of Damara Land,” p. 368, and has 
given a translation of the original description, which we herewith 
copy. 
“*Greenish-black, but cinereous-brown on the back, with bronzy 
reflections; the feathers narrowly (1-14 millim.) edged with 
greenish-black, rounded at the tips in adults, but slightly pointed 
in younger specimens ; throat almost bare, but the space extending 
from the angle of the mouth to below the nostrils feathered; the 
sides of the head much feathered, but a black bare ring round 
the eyes (2 millims. wide). Rectrices twelve. Iris ochre-yellow 
in adult birds, but green on the lower moiety, in younger 
specimens entirely a cinereous-brown; bill blackish horn-colour ; 
feet black.” 
Male.—¥Entire length, 715 millims.; expanse of wings, 1160; 
