PIED CORMORANT. 



(Plialacrocorax varius.) 



Va. fusctis siibtus albus^ superciliis pallidis ^ dorso posiico uropygio 



Jemoribus remigibus caudaque nigris. 

 Brown Cormorant beneath white^ with the eyebrows pale, the back 



behind, rump, thighs, quills, and tail black. 

 Pelecanus varius. Gmel. Sijst. Nat. 1. 576. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



890. 



Red Shag. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 605. Lath. Gen. Hist. x'. 428. 



Thirty inches in length : beak dusky at the tip ; 

 the rest of it, and the naked space about the eyes 

 yellow : the top of the head, hind part of the neck, 

 back, wings, and tail are brown ; the middle of the 

 back and wing-coverts palest, and the edges of the 

 last very pale : the lower part of the back, rump, and 

 thigh black-brown : the quills black ; some of these 

 nearest the body with pale tips : over the eyes is a 

 narrow pale stripe : all the under parts of the body 

 are pure white : the tail is rounded, about six inche;^ 

 in length, and brown-black : the legs are flesh-colour : 

 claws dusky. 



Inhabits New Zealand : said to build in trees, laying 

 two or three pale bluish- white eggs. 



