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They are not so common there as P. colensoi ; but there are intermediate forms. The head 

 and neck of one of these I stuffed for Lord Eanfurly." 



In the Otago Museum there is an exceptionally fine specimen of P. campbelli, with a 

 conspicuous vertical crest of shining black feathers. 



Young. — In a young bird which I presented to the Cambridge Museum the white on the 

 fore-neck is reduced to a narrow, diamond-shaped mark about two inches in length, and the 

 dark plumage is continued below for three inches or more. 



Obder PELECANIFORMES.] 



[Family PHALACROCORACID^. 



PHALACROCORAX TRAVERSI. 



(MACQUARIE-ISLAND SHAG.) 



Phalacrocorax traversi, Rothschild, Bull. B.O.C., 1898, viii., p. 21. 



I have not seen this species, but it is thus characterised by Mr. Eothschild from a 

 single specimen obtained by Mr. Henry Travers at Macquarie Island : — 



Adult. — No crest ; crown, back of neck, and ripper parts greenish steel-blue, much duller than in 

 P. onslowi, and not showing a dorsal white patch ; white alar bar, broad and well defined ; tail feathers, black, 

 and twelve in number ; throat and all under surface, white ; middle under tail-coverts, black ; feet, reddish- 

 orange in skin. Nasal caruncles well developed. 



This species is exactly intermediate between Phalacrocorax atricejps and P. verrucosus 

 in the disposal of the black and white on the sides of the head and neck. In P. atriceps 

 the ear is situated in the middle of the white area, while in P. verrucosus the ear is in the 

 middle of the black area. In the new species the ear is exactly on the border, half in the 

 white and half in the black area. "Wing, 305 to 310; tail, 145 ; culmen, 65; tarsus, 65; 

 outer toe and claw, 110 mm. Hab. y Macquarie Islands." 



PHALACROCORAX RANFURLYI. 



(KANFUBLY'S SHAG.) 



Phalacrocorax ranfurlyi, Ogilvie Grant, Bull. B.O.C., vol. xi., No. lxxx., p. 66, 1901. 



The Earl of Eanfurly, the late Governor of New Zealand, like one of his predecessors in 

 office, the Earl of Onslow, made a point of visiting every part of the colony over which he 

 ruled, however remote or apparently inaccessible. As Lord Onslow had interested himself in 

 getting island-sanctuaries proclaimed and set apart by the local Government for the con- 

 servation and perpetuation of the vanishing forms of bird-life, and in collecting living 

 examples for the Zoological Society, so, in like manner, Lord Ranfurly exerted himself to 



