150 BIRDS OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO 



cluermen en estos. Habitan los rios y lagunas llmpias y grandes, 

 nadando sin sacar otra cosa afuera del agua que la cabeza y la 

 mitad del cuello ; pero los ocultan con prontitud quando temen. 

 Subsisten del pescado, persiguicndolo con mucha ligereza largos 

 treclios baxo de agua." 



The Black Cormorant is common along the rocky coast in 

 Whiteside Channel to the west of Maldonado Point, but 1 do 

 not remember having seen it far up Useless Bay. 



"Every evening," says Durnford in Central Patagonia, 

 " large flocks ascend the R. Cliupat for many miles, flying in 

 from the sea, and fish in the river during the night." 



PHALACROCORAX MAGELLANICUS (Gmelin) 



Magellanic Shag, Latham, Synopsis Birds, iii, p. 604, 1785. 

 Pelecanus magellanicUS, Gmelin, Systema Nature, i, p. 576, 1788. 

 Cormoran magellanique, Eomh-on et Jacquinot, Voy. "Astrolabe" 

 et " Zelee;' AtJ. Ois., pi. xxxi, 1853. 



Phalacrocorax magellanicus, Allott, ibis, p. 167, 1861 ; OustaUt, 



Mis. Sci. Gap Horn, Ois., p. 150, 1891 ; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxvi, p. 388, 1895. 



Habitat.— Chili, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego ; the Falkland Islands. 



The Common Cormorant is fairly plentiful on the southern 

 shore of Useless Bay, in such parts as are rocky. I used to 

 come across these birds lying dead on the beach, from what 

 cause I do not know : one such specimen yielded me a good 

 series of a necrophagous beetle (St'Ipha higuttida). 



All expeditions seem to record this Cormorant, with the 

 exception of Darwin. 



Abbott says of it in the Falkland Island : — " It is very com- 

 mon along the coasts all the year round. It breeds on the cliffs 

 in communities, making its nests of mud and seaweed on the 

 ledges of the rocks, and laying three eggs, which do not diflfer 

 from those of the King-Shag (P. carunculatus) in appearance. 

 It appears to me probable that the thick limy coating which 



