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Gould, B. of Aust. VII, Plate LXVIIL 



Several specimens of this handsome species, from the Bay of Islands, 

 New Zealand, are in the collection. They are precisely as described 

 by Mr. Gould, as above, and figured in his magnificent Avork on the 

 Birds of Australia. 



We cannot coincide in the reference of this bird to Pelecanus varius, 

 Gmelin, which has been done by excellent authorities in Ornithology ; 

 but to us, Gmelin and Latham's descriptions seem applicable, with a 

 greater degree of propriety, to the succeeding. It is, however, referred 

 to that species by both Bonaparte, in Conspectus Avium, and Reichen- 

 bach, in Vollst. Naturg., and by other authors. It appears to be a 

 common bird of the coasts of New Zealand and Australia. 



This bird is the type of the Genus Hjjpoleucibs, Reichenbach, adopted 

 by the Prince Bonaparte, in Conspectus Avium, II, p. 173. It is pos- 

 sible that it is not specifically different from that immediately suc- 

 ceeding, in which case, Gmelin's name is probably to be adopted. 



4. Carbo leucogaster [Gould). 



Phalacrocorax leucogaster, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, p. 15G. 

 Pelecanus varius, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 576 (1788) ? 



Gould, B. of Aust. VII, Plate LXIX. 



Very considerably resembling the preceding, but larger. The spe- 

 cimen in the collection of the Expedition, as well as those in Mr. 

 Gould's collection, now in the Museum of the Philadelphia Academy, 

 have the appearance to us of being in immature plumage, from which 

 fact we do not feel assured in attempting to point out distinguishing 



with dark olive-green; tail dark gray, nearly black; shafts black; bill black, with a 

 brown tip; feet black; irides green; lores blue, with a yellow spot at the base of the 

 bill ; corners of the mouth, base of the lower mandible, and pouch, red. 



" Total length, two feet five and a half inches ; extent of wings, three feet seven and 

 one-fourth inches; wing, from the carpal joint, ten and eight-tenths inches; tail, five 

 and four-tenths inches ; tarsus, one and nine-tenths inches ; outer toe, three and a half 

 inches; bill, two and four-tenths inches; to the angle of the mouth, three and six-tenths 

 inches." Peale, as above. 



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