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Cordova and Aconquija, though it is more prevalent in the districts of 

 the Western Cordillera. 



In the territory of Chupat, D urn ford met with it at Ninfas Point in 

 November, and tells us that when the colonists are hunting in the 

 neighbourhood of the sea-coast the Condor is the first of the bird- 

 scavengers to make its appearance after game has been killed. 



During his subsequent excursion to the Sengel river in the interior, 

 t!ie Condor was commonly observed throughout the journey wherever 

 the rocks were high and steep. Several pairs were noticed nesting on 

 Nov. 16th, but the nests could not be reached. 



My own experience of the Condor is restricted to seeing one indi- 

 vidual, flying above the sea-shore, south of the Rio Negro. 



Order VIII. STEGANOPODES. 



Fam. XXXIV. PHALACROCORACID^E, OR 

 CORMORANTS. 



The only family of the Steganopodes that can at present be inserted 

 in the Argentine list is that of the Cormorants, though doubtless other 

 forms of this Order (Sula, Phaethon, and Freyata) will be hereafter 

 found to occur on the coast with more or less frequency. 

 - One Cormorant only has yet been positively determined as occurring 

 within the Argentine area. 



314. PHALACROCOEAX BRASILIANUS (Om.). 

 (BRAZILIAN CORMORANT.) 



Phalacrocorax brasilianus, Scl et Salv. Nomencl. p. 124; iid. P. Z. S. 1868, 

 p. 146 (Buenos Ay res) ; Durnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 188 (Buenos Ayres), et 

 1878, p. 399 (Patagonia); White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 624 (Buenos Ayres); 

 Barrows, Auk, 1884, p. 270 (Entrerios). Haliaeus brasilianus, Burm. Syst. 

 Ueb. in. p. 460 ; id. La-Plata Eeise, ii. p. 520 (Rio Parana). 



Description. Black ; feathers edged with metallic green ; bill and naked skin 

 of the face yellow : whole length 30-0 inches, wing 12-0, tail 6'0. Female 

 similar. Young brown ; chin and cheeks whitish ; neck greyish, with the tips of 

 the feathers black ; breast white, with blackish-brown mottlings ; belly black. 



Hab. Sea-coasts and inland waters of Central and South America. 

 This appears to be the only Cormorant met with on the coasts and 



