collected in Dutcli Neio Guinea. 273 



Immature. Iris pale blue-grey, culmen black, rest of the 

 bill yellow, orbital skin and lores slaty ; feet black. 



Total length in the flesh 570 mm. ( = 22^ inches). 



" The Little Pied Cormorant was sparingly seen, always 

 singly, on all the rivers. It is distinctly a river-species, 

 never flying high, but always up or down the course o£ the 

 river. In general habits, etc. it resembles the other River- 

 Shag (probably P. sulcirostris). 



"■ Another large species, dark above and below, was also 

 seen ; it was not very plentiful inland, but numbers were 

 seen along the coast. On the Kapare Hiver in October a 

 pair passed backwards and forwards morning and eveningj 

 generally flying high, and in the evening making direct for 

 the large peaks on the Saddle Range. They may have been 

 breeding up there, or rriay have been merely passing backr 

 wards and Ibrvvards for feeding purposes.'^ — C. H^B. G.'\ 



Family ANATJD^. 



*Anseranas semipalmata. 



Anseranas semipalmata (Lath.) ; Salvad. Cat, xxvii. p. 44 

 (1895) ; van Oort, p. 55 (1909). 



A young specimen obtained at Merauke is believed to 

 be the first record of the occurrence of this species iii 

 New Guinea. 



*Nettopus pulchellus. 



Nettopus pulchellus Grmel. ; Salvad. Catj xxvii^ p. 67 

 (1895) ; van Oort, p. 55 (1909). 

 Obtained at Merauke. 



*Deiidrocyg]ia guttata. 



Dendrocycna guttata Schleg, ; Salvad. Cat. xxvii. p. 164 

 (1895). 



Dendrocygna guttidata Salvad. op. cit. pi. i. (1895). 



Dendroci/gna guttata van Oort, p. 55. 



Dendrocycna guttulata Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 481 

 (1913). 



Several were recorded from Merauke. 

 SER. X. — JUR.-StJPPL,' 2.- ^ 



