PHALACEOCOEACID^ PHALAOROCOEAX 3 



This is a large genus, containing some forty species, which are 

 found throughout the whole world except, perhaps, in the Central 

 Pacific. Four of these occur within our limits. 



Pig. 1. — Bight footof Phalacrocorax capensis. 



Key of the Species. 



A. Tail with fourteen feathers. 



a. Larger, wing over 12'0; fore-neck and chest white P. lucidus, ip. i. 

 h. Smaller, wing less than ll'O ; fore-neck and 



chest black, like the back P. capensis, p. 5. 



B. Tail of twelve feathers, plumage black throughout. 



a. Larger, wing between ll'O and 12'0 ; skin of 



throat black P. neglectus, p. 8. 



b. Smaller, wing 8'0 to 9'0 ; skin of throat yellow P. africanus, p. 9. 



The common Cormorant of Europe (P. carho) has been stated 

 to occur in South Africa on the authority of Messrs. Layard and 

 Andersson, and I unfortunately confirmed what I now believe to 

 have been an error in a paper in the Ibis (1896, p. 522). The 

 example there alluded to as referable to P. carho is undoubtedly 

 only P. lucidus in full breeding plumage, and I think it highly 

 improbable that P. carbo ever comes so far south as Cape Colony. 



