§90 Birds of Celebes: Phalacrocoracidae. 



(Marie d 6); Is. of Torres Straits (Macgillivray (12, Voy. Alert (13); Papuasia 



— New Guinea, Salawatti, Aru, Kei, Mysol, Waigiou (fide Salvadori d 2, d 7); 

 Moluccas — Ceram, Amboina, Batcliian, Halmahera, Ternate (d2, d 7)\ Timor 

 (S. Miiller c 3, Eiedel); Sumba (Riedel rfi2); Lombok (Everett 5); Celebes area 



— Djampea (Everett d 10); N. Celebes — Gorontalo (Forsten c 3, v. Rosenberg 

 el, b 3, f 1, c 6, Riedel d 5, v. Musschenbroek c 5); Pelew Islands (Tetens & 

 Kubary c 4, d (I); ? New Zealand i^Buller 4). 



About a dozen specimens of the Pied Cormorant have been collected in 

 Celebes, all, apparently, on the large, shallow, weed-overgrown lake of Limbotto. 

 Rosenberg says it is fairly common here and attracts attention to itself from 

 its habit of sunning itself on branches of trees overhanging the water, with 

 half-expanded wings after the fashion of a heraldic eagle. 



The Little Pied Cormorant has a rather short and strong bill, yellow in 

 colour excejit on the culmen, and with a slight denticulation towards the end 

 of the tomium. The tail is rather long, the feathers twelve in number. This 

 is the number in the Shag, P. graculus, but the Common Cormorant. P. carho^ 

 has fourteen. Gould (I) represents P. melanoleuciis with its auricular and occi- 

 pital feathers very smartly brushed up, so as to form a sort of side-fringe to 

 the hind head and nape; this mode of bearing the feathers is not apparent from 

 skins. Though very distinct as a species, we have been unable to tind sufficient 

 reason for separating it generically from Phnlacrocorax. 



4 378. PHALACROCORAX SULOIROSTRIS Bidt. 



little Black Cormorant. 



Phalacrocorax sulcirostris (Brandt); (1) Gray, List Anseres Brit. Miis. 1844, 185; (II) Gld., 

 B. Austr. 1818, VII, pi. 67; (3) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 598. 



a. Graculus sulcirostris (1) Gray, Gen. B. 1845, HI, 667, Nr. 11; (II) Rchb., Natatores 



t. 316, figs. 2547—48; (3) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Pelecani, 1863, 13; (4) v. Musschenbr., 

 N. T. Ned. Ind. 1876, XXXVI, 381; (5) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber's Reise 

 1893, ni, 306. 



b. Phalacrocorax stictocephalus (Bp.); (1) Gld., Hb. B. Austr. 1865, EE, 495. 



c. Microcarbo sulcirostris (1) Salvad. , Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 365; (2) id., Orn. Pap. 1882, 



m, 408; (3) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 188. 



d. Graculus stictocephalus (1) Rams., Tab. List 1888, 25; (2) North, Nests & Eggs B. 



Austr. 1889, 367. 



For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori c 2. 



Figures and descriptions. Gould II, b 1; Reichenbach all; Schlegel a 3; Salvad. c 2. 



Adult. Glossy green-black, the feathers of the back, scapulars and upper wing-coverts of a 

 mealy greyish green appearance with black edges; superciliary region and sides of 

 occiput with small wliite streaks; wing 260 mm; tail 160; tarsus 45; outer toe with 

 claw 81; exposed culmen 49 (ad., locality uncertain — Nr. 11667). 



A second example (West Australia, Nr. 11105) has the exposed culmen only 

 38 mm long; wing 234. 



"Irides deep grass-green; orbits and gular pouch brownish black, the pouch 

 strongly tinged with blue; feet black" (Gould II). 



