Order ANSEKES.] [Fam. PELECANIILE. 



PHALACROCOEAX NOVjE HOLLANDS. 



(BLACK SHAG.) 



New-Holland Shag, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. x. p. 431 (1824). 

 Phalacrocorax novw hollandias, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 93 (1826). 

 Phalacrocorax carboides, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 156. 

 Graucalus carboides, Gray, in Dieff. Trav. ii. App. p. 201 (1843). 

 Gracalus carboides, Gray, Voy. Ereb. and Terror, Birds, p. 20 (1844). 

 Graculus carboides, Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 251. 

 Graculus carbo, Finsch, J. £ O. 1870, 375. 

 Graculus nova; hollandice, Gray, Hand-1. of B. iii. p. 127 (1871). 



Native name. — Kawau. 



Ad. sordide indigotico-niger, nucha cristata, pileo summo et colli lateribus fasciis filamentosis parvis ornatis : 

 scapularibus cum tectricibus alarum et secundariis interioribus clare bronzino-brunneis, viridi-nigro 

 marginatis : primariis nigricanti-brunneis : cauda nigra, supra vix cinerascente lavata : plaga lata ab 

 oculo postico et subter gulam conjuncta albida : corpore reliquo subtus indigotico-nigro, viridi nitente, 

 plaga hypochondriaca. maxima alba : rostro albido, culmine et apice brunnescentibus : plaga, ophthalmica 

 gulaque nudis lsete flavis : pedibus nigris : iride thalassino-viridi. 



Adult. Upper part of the head, neck all round, back, rump, and all the under surface of the body shining 

 greenish black ; shoulders, scapulars, and wing-coverts bronzy or coppery brown, broadly margined with 

 shining greenish black ; a broad patch crossing the throat and connecting the eyes, buffy white, some- 

 times tinged with yellow ; on each thigh a large rounded spot of white, more or less conspicuous in 

 different examples ; quills and tail-feathers black. Irides sea-green ; bare skin round the eyes and on 

 the gular pouch rich yellow ; bill whitish horn-colour, shading into brown on the culmen and towards 

 the tips; legs and feet jet-black. Total length 34 - 5 inches; wing, from flexure, 13"5 ; tail 7; bill, along 

 the ridge 2 - 75, along the edge of lower mandible 3 - 5 ; tarsus 2 ; longest toe and claw 3 - 75. 



Obs. In summer the male is adorned with numerous white linear feathers, scattered over the throat and 

 neck, and extending about half an inch beyond the permanent feathers ; but these white plumes never 

 assume the dense character exhibited in the summer plumage of P. carbo, in which these parts, as well 

 as the crown, appear almost entirely white. 



Young. Upper parts brown with a greenish gloss, deepening into greenish black on the lower part of back 

 and rump ; mantle and wing-cc-verts dingy coppery brown with darker margins, the longer coverts 

 tipped with creamy white ; throat pale buff; sides of the head, front and sides of the neck dark brown 

 mottled with pale buff; centre of the breast and the abdomen yellowish white; the sides of the body 

 largely mottled with brown, varied more or less with greenish black ; quills and tail-feathers black. 



