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Platalea regia. Long flowing crest from the occiput, and the whole of the plumage pure 

 white except the chest, which is slightly washed with yellow ; forehead, face for a considerable distance 

 beyond the eyes, and the throat entirely denuded of feathers, and appearing in the dead specimen to 

 have been deep blue or green ; a patch over each eye, and one in the centre of the crown orange ; bill 

 and feet black. 



Total length, 39 inches; bill, 8J; wing, 15; tail, 5J; tarsi, 

 Habitat. East coast of New South Wales. 



The female is precisely the same in colour, but is much less in size, particularly in the length of the 

 bill. 



Platalea flavipes. The whole of the plumage pure white ; face much less denuded than in 

 P. regia ; the denuded part and the bill orange yellow ; legs and feet livid yellow. 

 Total length, 28 inches ; bill, 7£ ; wing, 14^ ; tail, 5^ ; tarsi, 4 j. 

 Habitat. New South Wales. 



Ibis strictipennis. Head and upper half of the neck bare, and apparently of a blackish brown 

 tinged with blue; the whole of the body and wings white tinged with buff; the feathers on the fore- 

 part of the neck long, narrow, lanceolate and stiff ; primaries tipped with deep bluish green ; webs of 

 the tertiaries extremely prolonged and recurved, and of a deep blue black mingled with white ; tarsi 

 and a denuded space under the wing reddish brown. 



Total length, 30 inches ; bill, 6 ; wing, 14^ ; tail, 6 ; tarsi, 4. 



Habitat. East coast of New South Wales. 



Sterna melanura. Crown of the head and all the upper surface dark hair brown ; primaries and 

 tail blackish brown, the latter forked for about an inch and a half ; forehead, throat, and all the under 

 surface white ; bill and feet black. 



Total length, 11 inches; bill, 1 J ; wing, 9; tail, 4f ; tarsi, J. 



Habitat. New South Wales. 



This appears to be an immature specimen. In the Collection of the United Service Museum. 



Sula rubripes. Head, throat, chest, abdomen, and under tail-coverts brownish white; back and 

 tail-feathers clove brown ; primaries and secondaries dark brown, the remainder of the wing light clove 

 brown, mottled with brownish grey ; bill yellowish flesh colour except the tip, which is black ; feet 

 rich reddish orange. 



Total length, 23 inches ; bill, 4 ; wing, 14 ; tail, 7 ; tarsi, If. 



Habitat. New South Wales. 



The specimen from which this description was taken appeared to be somewhat immature. In 

 the Collection of the United Service Museum. 



Pufeinus assimilis. Crown of the head, all the upper surface, wings, and tail sooty black; sides 

 of the face, throat, and all the under surface white ; bill dark horn colour ; tarsi and toes greenish 

 yellow ; webs yellowish orange. 



Total length, 11 inches; bill, 2f ; wing, 6^; tail, 3 ; tarsi, I£. 



Habitat. New South Wales. 



Very nearly allied to Puffinus obscurus ; but considerably smaller than that species. 



Phalacrocorax carboides. Throat and sides of the face white; crown of the head, neck, all the 

 under surface, rump and tail (which consists of fourteen feathers) deep glossy blackish green ; feathers 

 of the back, wings, and upper part of the flanks chocolate, broadly margined with deep glossy black- 

 ish green ; neck ornamented with numerous fine lanceolate white feathers ; a few white feathers are 

 also~situated on the outer side of each thigh ; bill horn colour ; feet black. 



Total length, 34 inches; bill, 4; wing, 13J; tail, 8; tarsi, 2£. r 



Habitat. Van Diemen's Land. 



Closely allied to the Common Cormorant {Phalacrocorax Carbo) of Europe. 



Phalacrocorax leucogaster. Forehead, crown of the head, back of the neck, and rump greenish 

 black ; back and wing-coverts deep green, each feather narrowly margined with black; primaries and 

 secondaries black ; throat, front and sides of the neck, and all the under surface white ; bill black 

 tinged with red ; feet black. 



Total length, 26 inches; bill, 3 ; wing, 11J; tail, 5j; tarsi, 2\. 



Habitat. New South Wales. 



