

4 PHALACKOCORACID^: PHALACKOCOKAX 



564. Phalacrocorax lucidus. White-breasted Duiker. 



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

 Graculus lucidus, Grill, K. Vet. Akad. Handl. ii, no. 10, p. 56 (1858) 



[Knysna] ; Layard, Ibis, 1868, p. 120; Pelzeln, Novara Reise, Vog. 



p. 158 (1865). 

 Graculus carbo (nee Linn.}, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 380 (1867) ; ? Gurney, 



in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 367 (1872) ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 214. 

 Phalacrocorax lucidus, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 779 (1884) ; 

 j Swinburne, P. K. Phys. Soc. Edin. ix, p. 201 (1886) ; W. L Sclater, 



Ibis, 1896, pp. 521, 1904, p. 84 ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 160 (1896) ; 



Grant, Cat. B. M. xxvi, p. 351 (1898) ; Woodward Bros., Natal B. 



p. 203 (1899) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 268 ; Reichenow, Vog. Afr. i, 



p. 89 (1900) ; Oates, Cat. B. Eggs, ii, p. 199 (1902). 



Description. Adult. Crown, back of the neck, middle of the 

 back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and body below from the middle of 

 the breast to the under tail-coverts black, slightly glossed with 

 green ; scapulars and wing-coverts bronzy-brown edged with black ; 

 wing-quills and tail blackish, slightly glossed with silvery-bronze ; 

 the throat, sides and front of the neck, upper chest and a patch 

 on the flanks white ; tail of fourteen feathers ; head with a few 

 elongated crest feathers. 



Iris green ; upper mandible black, lower mandible becoming 

 dull white towards the base ; pouch mottled greenish and yellow ; 

 a yellowish patch below each eye ; legs black. 



Length about 35*0 ; wing 12 f 75 ; tail 5*0 ; culmen 3'75 ; tarsus 2-5. 



A young bird is much browner above owing to a number of 

 narrow whity plumes being mingled with the black, especially on 

 the head and neck ; the scapulars and wing-coverts are silvery 

 rather than bronze-brown, and the white of the lower surface 

 extends back to the under tail-coverts, but the flanks and thighs 

 are black, the latter being sometimes slightly mottled with white. 



Albino varieties are sometimes met with. 



Distribution. The White-breasted Cormorant is found along the 

 coasts of Cape Colony throughout its extent, and is probably the 

 bird alluded to under the name of Graculus carbo by Andersson as 

 occurring in Walvisch Bay, as it has been met with further north, 

 at Landana, in Angola, by Anchieta, while Alexander found it not 

 uncommon in the Cape Verde Islands ; up the east coast it occurs 

 as far as Socotra and the Abyssinian coast. Though more usually 

 confined to the coast, it is sometimes met with inland. 



The following are recorded localities : Cape Colony Port 



