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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
extensive geographical distribution, having been recorded over 
the greater portion of the Old World, the Malay Archipelago, 
New Guinea, Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand ; the little 
Black Cormorant Graculus sulcirostris , Brandt, inhabiting the 
Australian and Austro-Malayan Region, and the White-headed 
Stilt, Himantopus leucocephalus , Gould, occurring likewise in 
Australia, the Austro-Malayan Region, and New Zealand ; the 
latter is not in fully adult plumage, and shows an admixture of 
smoky black feathers intermingled with the white on the crown of 
the head and occiput, a not uncommon variety in this species in 
its first season’s plumage, a similar one having been obtained last 
year on behalf of the Trustees of the Australian Museum by Mr. 
T. R. Icely, the Visiting Magistrate at Lord Howe Island ; also a 
specimen of the Black-billed Spoonbill, Platalea melanorhyncha , 
Reichenbach, found also in Northern, North-eastern, and North- 
western Australia, both of which have not previously been 
recorded from that island. In the early part of this month 
another specimen of Himantopus leucocephalus was presented to 
the Trustees by the Rev. Joseph Annand, M.A., of Tangoa, Santo 
in the New Hebrides, with a label attached — “ Obtained at 
Tangoa, Santo, May 4tli, 1892, not common here,” showing that 
this interesting nomad has during a very short period been found 
in three hitherto unrecorded and widely separated localities. 
