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NEW HOLLAND CORMORANT. 



(Phalacrocorax Novae Hollandise.) 



Ph. corpore nigro subtus variegato, pennis tectricibus alarum pal- 

 lide margin atis, illis colli rufo marginatis, orbitisjlavis. 



Cormorant with the body black, variegated beneath, the feathers 

 of the wing-coverts with pale edges, and of the neck with rufous 

 margins, orbits yellow. 



New Holland Shag. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 431. 



" Length twenty inches : beak two inches and a 

 half long, and pale : round the eye bare and pale 

 yellow : plumage on the upper part in general black : 

 the feathers on the wing-coverts have pale edges, and 

 those of the neck fringed with rufous : under parts 

 paler and mottled : tail six inches long, composed of 

 twelve feathers, cuneiform : legs black. Inhabits New 

 Holland." — Latham. 



BLACK AND WHITE CORMORANT. 



(Phalacrocorax melanoleucos.) 



Ph. corpore supra nigro, subtus superciliisque albis, rostro cameo, 



pedibus nig?-is. 

 Cormorant with the body above black, beneath and eyebrows 



white, the beak flesh-colour, the legs black. 

 Pelecanus melanoleucos. J'ieil. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Xat. torn. 

 8. p. 88. 



