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Order PELECANI FORMES 



Family CARBON ID.E. 



Genus CARBO. 



Car bo Lacepede, Tableau Giseaux, 1799, p. 15. 

 Type (by tautonymy) : C. carl)o Liuue. 



Carbo carbo steadi, subsp. n. Black Sliag. 



Synonym : — 



Phahtcrocora.v novcphoUandue Buller, Siippl. vol. ii. p. 22. [The 

 type-locality of Pelecanns cttrbo Linud, Syst. Nat. lOtli ed. 

 1758, p. 138, is Sweden, and of P/ialaci-ocora:v novahollandifc 

 Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. xiii. 182G, p. 93, is 

 Tasmania.] 



Range : — New Zealand (breeding). 



Note: — C. c. steadi is easily separated from typical C. c. 

 carlo by the scant white neck-featliers of the summer 

 plumage as well as hy size ; compared with C. c. novce- 

 hollandim, the nearest breeding subspecies of C carbo, it is 

 smaller in every dimension. Average measurements C. c. 

 nova holt andioi : culmen 66 mm., wing 345 ; average measure- 

 ments C c. steadi : culmen 59 mm., wing 325. Type in the 

 British Museum. 



Geuus IIYROLEUCUS. 



Hypoleucus Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel, 1852, p. vii. 

 Type (by original designation) : H. varius (Gmelin). 



Hypoleucus varius varius (Gmelin). Pied Shag. 



Pelecanns varius Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 576 : Queen 

 Charlotte^s Sound, South Island. 



Synonyms : — 



Pelecanns inca Forster, Descr. Anim. ed. Licht. 1844, p. 104 : same 



locality. 

 Carbo fucosus Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped., Birds, 1848, p. 268: 



Bay of Islands, North Island. 

 Phalacrocorax varius Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 24. 



Range : — Both Islands (breeding). 



