STE6AN0P0DES, 



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on the 22nd of February ; and there are two in the Pryer collection 

 from Yokohama. There is also a fine example in the Norwich 

 Museum sent by Mr. Ringer from Nagasaki. 



These examples agree in their measurements with an example from 

 Kamtschatka and with all the examples from China in the Swinhoe 

 coUectioUj including the type of Phalacrocorax tsolus (SwinhoCj Ibisj 

 1867j p. 395). They average: — ^wing 11 inches, tail 6 incheSj bill 

 from frontal feathers 2 inches, tarsus %\ inches. They are all 

 feathered on the forehead to the base of the bill. 



The breeding-range of the Resplendent Shag extends from the 

 Kurile Islands and Kamtschatka up to Norton Sound, and across the 

 Aleutian chain to the south coast of Alaska as far south-east as 

 Sitka. 



196. PHALACEOCORAX BICRISTATUS. 



(BARE-FACED SHAG.) 



Phalacrocorax bicristatus, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 301 (1826). 



Head of Phalacrocorax bicristatus. 4 natural size. 



In the Bare-faced Shag, when adult, the forehead and a" con- 

 siderable space round the eye is orange-red and bare of feathers. 

 Young birds are scarcely distinguishable from the young of the 

 Resplendent Shag. 



Figures : Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. ii. 

 p. 163 (coloured woodcut of head) . 



The Bare-faced Shag was found on the Kurile Islands by Steller, 



p2 



