41-1 Messrs. G. M. Matliews and Tom Iredale : 



Synonyms : — 



Phalacrocorax gimicus Jacquinot & Puclievan, Voy. Pole Sud, 



Zool. Tol. iii.'lSSS, p. 127, pi. 31. fig. 1 : Otago, Soutli Island. 

 Phdlacrocorax chalconotus Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 33. 



Range : — Stewart Island (breeding) ; south of South 

 Island. 



Note: — This puzzling form appears to us to present another 

 of the melanisms for which the southern parts of New 

 Zealand are noted : that is, we believe that it is a fixed 

 " melanistic '' form of the preceding bird. Since arriving 

 at that conclusion we find that Captain Hutton wrote 

 {' Emu/ vol. iii. 1903, p. 5), *' P. chalconotus is entirely 

 black, but as the colours of the skin on tlie face and gular 

 pouch are exactly like those of P. steivarti, I look upon it 

 as a black descendant of that species, especially as it has 

 occasionally white feathers on its lower surface.^' 



Genus STICTOCARBO. 



Stic/ocarbo Bonaparte, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. xli. 1855, 

 p. 1115. 



Type (by subsequent designation) : S. punctatus (Sparr- 

 man). 



Stictocarbo punctatus (Sparrman). Spotted Shag. 



Pelicanus punctatus Sparrman, Mus. Carlson, fasc. i. 1786, 

 no. X. : Queen Charlotte's Sound, South Island. 



Synonyms : — 



Pelecanus ncevhis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 575: same locality. 

 Hydrocorax dilophus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'fli.st. Nat. vol. viii. 



1817, p. 85 : new name for P. nccvius Gmelin. 

 Phalacrocorax putictatus Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 35. 



Range: — Both Islands (breeding). 



Stictocarbo featherstoni (Buller). Chatham Islands' Shag. 



Phalacrocorax featherstoni Buller, Ibis, 1873, p. 90: 

 Chatham Islands. 



Synonym : — 



Phalacrocorax featherstoni Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 36. 

 Range: — Chatham Islands (breeding). 



