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601. DYSPORUS CYANOPS. 

 THE MASKED BOOBY. 



Sula cyanops, Stntdev. Phys. Sallsk. Tidsk. 1837, p. 218, t. 5 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. 

 p. :i07? Iluf/cr, -V. /'. v. p. :iO:j ; Hume, 8. F. v. p. 307, viii. p. 116: Ley ye, 

 IHnJ* Crt/foH, p. J180. Sula personata, Gould, P. Z. S. 1846, p. 21; id. B. 

 Austr. vii. pi. 77. 



Description. Plumage white ; the primaries and their coverts, greater 

 wing-coverts and secondaries, as also the tips of the tertials and scapulars, 

 brownish black ; inner webs of the secondaries basally white ; tail very 

 dark brown, somewhat paler than the primaries, the basal portion of the 

 feathers white, extending along the edges of the central pair ; under wing- 

 white. (Legge.) 



Irides yellow ; naked skin of the face and chin dull bluish black ; legs 

 greenish blue. (Gould.) Legs and feet lavender-blue; bill pale bluish 

 horn; gular skin slate ; irides pale green. (Butler.) 



Length about 32 inches, tail 7*5, wing 17, tarsus 2'2, bill from gape 

 nearly 5. 



The Masked Booby has occurred at Ceylon, and consequently it must 

 sometimes be found in the Bay of Bengal. Indeed, Mr. Hume mentions 

 casually (S. F. v. p. 310) that this species occurs at the Cocos Islands. 



This species has the same wide range as the other Boobies. 



Family PHALACROCORACID^. 

 Genus PHALACROCORAX, Briss. 



602. PHALACROCORAX CARBO. 



THE LARGE CORMORANT. 



Pelecanus carbo, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 216. Pelecanus sinensis, Shaw $ Nodd. 

 Nat. Misc. pi. 529. Graculus carbo, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 861 ; Hume. Nests 

 and Eggs, p. 659; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 364; Bl. B. Burm. p. 164; Oates, S. F. 

 v. p. 169. Phalacrocorax carbo, David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 532 ; Hume $ 

 Dav. S. F. vi. p. 496 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped: p. 696 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. 

 p. 151, pi. ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 1182 ; Doia, S. F. vii. p. 468 ; Hume, S. F. 

 viii. p. 116 ; Gates, S. F. x. p. 248. 



Description. Male and female in breeding -plumage. General colour ol 

 the plumage black ; a nuchal crest of narrow, pointed feathers about an 

 inch and a half long ; a white band from eye to eye encircling the bare 



