PHALACllOCOilAX SULCIROSTRIS. 



(Oroove-hilled Cormorant.) 



The general plumage, dark shining black, with greenish tint ; wing feathers, grey, margined with greenish black ; irides, deep grass green ; 

 orbits, dark lead color ; bill, dark grey, black along the ridge of the upper mandible ; feet, dark grey, inclining to black ; pouch, dark 

 bluish grey. 



Length, 25 inches ; wing, 10 ; tail, 6f ; bill, 3 ; tarsus, 2 ; longest toe, 3. 



This species is rarely found along the coasts, but is common on all the rivers, creeks, and lagoons, of the interior, and is 

 frequently seen sitting on the branches of trees overhanging the water, or on fallen timber protruding above its surface, in small companies 

 of five to ten. Its food consists of frogs, small fish, water lizards, etc. Information concerning its nest and eggs is still a desideratum. 



