121 [Vol. xlii. 



Since then there seems to have been little or nothing 

 published about it. 



On March 19th, 1921, Sir Percy Cox and Major Cheesman 

 put into Bahrein Island in the Persian Grulf, and on the 

 desert island o£ Halul near by they found a very large 

 colony of these birds breeding, and eggs, young in various 

 stages, and adults were obtained. I will leave an account of 

 the nidification to the discoverers to give. The young in 

 down does not seem to be known. 



Young in doivn. Covered with pure white down, except 

 round face and upper part of neck and gular region. 



Bill light brown and bluish, bare skin round eye and 

 gular region pinkish-white. Iris pinkish-white. Legs and 

 feet ivory-white. 



Immature. Upper parts and head and neck dark brown, 

 scapulars, head, neck, and small wing-coverts with light 

 edges. Breastj belly, and under tail-coverts white. Bill 

 light brown to bluish. Bare skin pinkish ; iris whitish ; 

 feet pink-brown. 



This appears to be a bird a year old. 



It is very interesting to note that this Cormorant has a 

 white down ; in P. carbo, P. javanicus, and P. graculus the 

 down is dark brown or blackish. 



Whether this Cormorant breeds here and there along the 

 Persian Grulf and Arabian coast to Socotra or whether it 

 wanders to that island in the non-breeding season requires 

 further investigation. 



Dr. C. B. TiCEHURST also described the following new 

 races of Indian birds : — 



(1) Tarsiger chrysseus whistleri, subsp. nov. 



Differs from typical T. c. clirysceus from Nepal in 

 the following respects : — Male : not so dark above, paler 

 olivaceous, with few or no black bases to the feathers of the 

 mantle; golden colour everywhere paler. Female: greener. 



