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The white areas on the sides of the neck show plainly in this stage and 

 some feathers of the adult dress are found on the upper back and among 

 the wing-coverts and scapulars. 



Geographical Range. — Coasts of Peru and Chili and the Western 

 Reaches of the Straits of Magellan and Fuegian waters ; rare or casual 

 in the eastern parts of the Straits. 



The naturalists of the Princeton Expeditions did not meet this species 

 of cormorant in their explorations, nor was this to be expected from what 

 we know of the distribution of the birds and their claim to consideration 

 as a part of the fauna of Patagonia ; they have been found at Port San 

 Julian on the Atlantic Coast of Patagonia but only casually ; they occur 

 at western points in the Straits of Magellan, but there is so far no record 

 of their regular occurrence so far to the eastward even as Sandy Point. 



At Chiloe Island, Dr. Cunningham saw these birds and he writes : 

 "The 30th [May] was fair, though still blowing pretty hard. In the fore- 

 noon a large flock of very beautiful cormorants [Phalacrocorax gaimardi), 

 with bluish grey and white plumage, yellow bills and scarlet legs, lighted 

 on the water not far from the ship, but we were unable to procure one. 

 One of "the officers recognized them as specimens of a species of which he 

 had seen two examples on one occasion on the Messier Channel, but there 

 they must be very rare, as I never saw any to the south of Chiloe." 

 (Cunn. Nat. Hist. Strts. Mag. 1871.) 



Phalacrocorax vigua (Vieillot). 



Zamaragullon negro, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 393 (1805). 



Hydrocorax vigua, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. VIII. p. 90 (181 7, ex 



Azara.) 

 Carbo graculus (nee Linn.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. p. 897 (1820). 

 Pelecanus vigjta, Vieill. Enc. Meth. I. p. 342 (1823). 

 Halieus brasilianits, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 86 (1823). 

 Carbo brasilianus, Spix. Av. Bras. II. p. 83, pi. cvi. (1825). 

 Phalacrocorax niger, King, Zool. Journ. IV. p. loi (1829: Straits of 



Magellan). 

 Halieus brasiliamts, Gray in Griff, ed. Cuv. Anim. Kingd. III. p. 591 



(1829). 

 Carbo mysticalis, Less. Traitd d'Orn. p. 604 (1831); Puch. Rev. et Mag. 



de Zool. 1850, p. 628. 



