THE WHITE-BKEASTBD COBMOEANT 



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The Little Black Cormorant. 



Phalacrocorax sulcirostris. 



Australia, New Zealand, Austro-Malayan Islands to South Borneo. 



General colour brownish black, with a greenish gloss; some white 

 plumules on each side of the head and about the neck. Total length about 

 25 inches, culmen 1.7, wing 9. .5 to 10.4, tall 4.7, tarsus 1.7. 



Build generally in rookeries, the nests usually being made of 

 sticks in trees or shrubs in swamps, over water; occasionally 





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White-breasted Cormorant : Phalacrocorax ffouldi. 



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they build on rocks. Four eggs are laid, exactly like the other 

 Cormorants. They measure about 2. x 1.40 inch. 



These birds are very plentiful on many of the inland waters, 

 and frequently nest in companj^ with the Little Black and White 

 Cormorant. 



The White-breasted Cormorant. 

 Plialacrocorax gouldi. 



Tasmania, South and East Australia and Louisiade Archipelago. 



Above black, glossed with steel-blue; sides of the head, throat and 

 underparts white; in nesting season back of neck has numerous white 

 plumules; the feathering is continued along the lower mandible for some 



