90 Dr. W. L. Buller on a new Species of Cormorant. 



abdomen yellowish buff, with a line of dusky black feathers 

 down the centre of the lower breast, middle of abdomen 

 whitish. 



Four specimens of this new Tit were obtained by Major 

 St. John in the oak-forests of Southern Persia, near Shiraz. 

 P. cceruleus is said by De Filippi to occur and breed at 

 Kazvin, west of Tehran, in Northern Persia (Viag. in Persia, 

 pp. 211, 346). I had not the good fortune to obtain speci- 

 mens. It would be well to compare skins from Northern 

 Persia with those now described. 



X. Description of a new Species of Cormorant from the Chat- 

 ham Islands. By Walter L. Buller, Sc.D., F.L.S., &c. 



Phalacrocorax featherstoni, sp. nov. 

 Diag. — Pileo et collo undique indigotico-nigris, fronte et oc- 

 cipite conspicue cristatis, collo postico filamentis albis 

 paullo dilatatis ornato : dorso summo cum scapularibus et 

 tectricibus alarum olivascenti-brunneis, plumis nigro 

 conspicue apicaliter maculatis, tectricibus minimis sor- 

 dide indigotico-nigris : dorso postico, uropygio et supra- 

 caudalibus indigotico-nigris : remigibus nigricanti-brun- 

 neis, secundariis extus canescentibus : cauda nigra : sub- 

 tus pulchre canesceus, abdumine imo cum subcaudalibus 

 subalaribusque indigotico-nigris : iride cana viridi reti- 

 culata : rostro saturate brunneo : pedibus aurantiacis. 

 Head, upper portion of neck, and the whole of the nape, 

 with the vertical and occipital crests, shining indigo-black ; 

 sides and hind part of neck ornamented with scattered fila- 

 mentous white feathers, having the tips produced and some- 

 what spatulate ; the shoulders, mantle, and upper surface of 

 wings olivaceous brown, glossed with green, each feather 

 marked with a conspicuous terminal spot of black ; back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts, as well as the small wing-coverts, 

 dull indigo-black ; quills blackish brown, the secondaries 

 greyish on their outer webs ; tail black ; lower part of fore- 

 neck, breast, and middle portion of abdomen beautiful grey ; 

 sides of the body, flanks, under surface of wings, lower ab- 

 domen, and under tail-coverts indigo-black. Iridcs grey 



