BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND. iL 
150. GRACULUS CHALCONOTUS. Grey. 
ENTIRELY greenish black, with flesh colored feet ; head, crested. 
evo wVe, oto eB. 3° 1. 2. 
Otago (Harl.) Peculiar to New Zealand. 
J have seen no specimen. 
151. GRACULUS SULCIROSTRIS. Brant. 
GREENISH black ; greyish on the back ; over the eye and on the sides of 
the neck, numerous minute narrow white feathers during the breeding 
season ; orbits and pouch, brownish black, the latter tinged with blue. 
Small. 
Manna (Manawaora?) Bay. (T. R. Peale.) 
Australia, Indian Archipelago, India. 
I have seen no specimen. 
152. GRACULUS BREVIROSTRIS. Gould. C.M. 
White-throated Shag. 
Back, with the throat and chin white; pouch, yellow. The young are 
entirely black. 
ie Aes NYE 985. = Be 2c2b. SE Va, 
Egg.—Bluish white ; length, 2 ; breadth, 1-35. 
Both Islands. Peculiar to New Zealand. 
153. GRACULUS VARIUS. Gml. C.M. 
Pied Shag. Kawau. 
ABove, greenish black, brown on the back; below, white; thighs, 
greenish black. The young birds are brown above, and white, mottled 
with brown, below. Between the eye and the gape, light blue ; a spot in 
front of the eye, bright yellow. 
Ta Wel lo 2B. 3°35 T5220. 
Egg.—FPale blue ; length, 2:4 ; breadth, 1°5. 
Both Islands, Australia. 
154. GRACULUS PUNCTATUS. Sparrm. O.M. 
Spotted Shag. 
G. stictocephalus. [List of birds in the New Zealand Exhibition, 1865. | 
ABOVE, grey, with black spots ; tail and thighs, black ; below, lead grey ; 
head and neck, black, with a white stripe down each side of the neck ; 
