50 BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 
GracuLus. JL. 
Bit, straight, rather slender, hooked at the tip ; second and third quills 
the longest ; tail, rounded. 
147. GRACULUS CARBO. L. C.M. 
Cormorant. Black Shag. Kawau. 
G. carboides. Gray. Phalacrocoraxa Nove Hollandie. BuLuEr. 
Axpove, dark green or blue black ; bronzy on the back ; below, green 
black ; throat, and a band extending to the eye, white ; a white spot on 
the thigh, and many linear white feathers on the head and neck. When 
the breeding season is over, the white feathers on the head and neck are 
lost, and the throat is yellowish white. The young are brown, mottled 
with white below. 
Mod OW.2 13D Boon Ly 2-20. 
Egg.—Bluish white, chalky ; length, 2-5 ; breadth, 1-58. 
Both Islands, Europe, Australia, Egypt, China. 
148. GRACULUS CARUNCULATUS. Gml. 
G. cirrhatus. GRAY. 
BuvE black ; wings, green black ; below, an oblong spot on each wing, 
and some long feathers over each eye, white ; base of the bill furnished 
with a yellow wattle ; head, crested ; skin round the eye, blue ; between 
the eye and the mouth, orange ; legs, scarlet. 
taeo or W., 125 B., 3°25 5 UT, 2:5. 
Egg.—FPale green ; length, 2-8 ; breadth, 1-9. (Layard. ) 
Crozet Island, Straits of Magellan. 
I have seen no specimens. 
149. GRACULUS MELANOLEUCUS. Vieill. C.M. 
Frilled Shag. 
Asove, black ; below, white ; feathers of the neck, lengthened. In the 
young the abdomen is mottled with black. 
LE ees NV Oral, alae oy Ds tieG, 
Both Islands, Australia, Pelew Islands. 
