224 Transactions—Zoology. 
Length, 8-75 in. ; wing, 3:15 ; bill from gape, 1-4; tarsus, 1; middle toe 
and claw, 1-4. 
Young covered with brownish black down. 
This curious bird was found on Mangare only ; it will, doubtless, form the 
type of a new genus, as no other rail has a curved bill. 
Halodroma berardii, Quoy. 
Pelecanoides berardii, Q. and Q., “ Voy. de l'Uran.,” Zool., pl. 31. Pl. col. 517. 
This species is distinguished from H. wrinatrix by its narrow bill, which is 
only -17 inches in breadth at the end of the nasal tubes, while in H. urinatrix 
it is ‘25 in. 
Phalacrocorax carunculatus, Grol. 
Graculus cirrhatus, Gray, “ Voy. Ereb. and Terr.,” Birds, p. 19. 
Several specimens were obtained. Legs and feet flesh coloured, 
Length, 27:5 in. ; wing, 10-5; bill, 3-25 ; tarsus, 2. 
As soon as the breeding season is over they lose the dark blue-black on 
the back, and get instead brown with a broad white transverse band. 
Phalacrocorax africanus, Gril. ? 
Graculus africanus? Hutton, “ Ibis,” July, 1872. 
Head, neck, throat, lower part of the back, thighs, vent, and over the tail, 
dark blue- or green-black ; upper back and wing-coverts greenish bronzy _ 
brown, each feather with a black apex ; breast and abdomen grey ; quills and 
tail brownish black ; head crested ; neck ornamented with white feathers in 
the breeding season ; bill dark coloured ; legs and feet yellowish orange, 
Length 19 in. ; wing, 9-5; bill, 2°75 ; tarsus 2. 
In the “ Ibis” for last July I referred this beautiful species to G. africanus 
with some doubt, as the only descriptions available, those of Linnzeus, Cuvier, 
and Layard, in his “ Birds of South Africa,” were very short and disagreed 
among themselves, but still seemed to indicate a bird very like ours. By the 
last mail, however, I heard from Dr. Finsch that Dr. Buller has sent him a 
specimen for examination, and that he (Dr. Finsch) considered it as a new 
species ; it is certainly distinct from G. longicaudus, Swainson (“ B. of Africa,” 
IL, p. 253) which Mr. Gray considered the same as G. africanus. It is also 
found in New Zealand, for I have seen fragments in a lady’s hat of a specimen 
that was shot at the Wade near Auckland, 
