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Birds of Celebes: Phalacrocoracidae. 
Malay Peninsula (Begbie 5, Kelham 29, Hartert 47); Sumatra (Raffles 4, 17, 44)-, 
Java (Horsfield, Salomon Mtiller, etc. 3, 9, 31)- Borneo (Beccari, etc. 17, 46, 
53, 55); Philippines — Luzon (Meyer 16), Negros (Layardld), Mindoro (Steer e 45, 
Schmacker a .3); Celebes — Manado (Meyer 12, 13, 22), Gorontalo Distr. (Rosenb. 
18, 20, 25, Riedel 55), Pampanua, S. Peninsula (Weber54); Madaga,scar (Pollen 49). 
The Indian Darter most closely resembles Plotus novaehollandiae Gould of 
Australia and Nevp Guinea, which has the lower fore-neck hazel, and a second 
•white stripe bordering the bare skin behind the chin. In the Region of the 
Caucasus and Western Asia another allied form, P. chantrei Oust., has been 
described (35). In Africa it is represented by P. levaillanti, and in the warm 
parts of N. and S. America by P. anhinga, but these species differ more widely. 
The Darters are easily recognisable by their long, thin necks and straight ser- 
rated hills, and this creates an appearance which has given rise to the name 
“Snake-bird” for them. For the rest, they are very like Cormorants. Their 
powers of diving are very great, and they have the capacity, like the Grebes, 
of submerging the body, so that they are capable of swimming with the head 
only above water. A curious character of their plumage is the corrugated, or 
ribbed, character of the outer web of the innermost remex and of the outer 
web of the middle tail-feathers. 
In Celebes the Indian Darter has as yet been recorded from three localities 
only, among them Lake Limbotto where it seems to be plentiful, for Rosenberg 
got 14 specimens there, and it is to be expected that it will be found on all 
the lakes of the island which are suited to its mode of life. It is said to 
feed entirely upon fish by Legge, who gives an excellent description of its 
habits (24). 
GENUS PHIALACROCORAX Briss. 
In the Cormorants the bill is generally longer than the head, hooked at 
the tip, not serrated; anterior malar region and upper throat naked; feet com- 
pletely webbed, the outermost toe much the longest, the claw of the middle one 
serrated; wings rather short, rounded to fit the body; tail moderately long, the 
feathers 12 or 14 in number, stiff, and exposed almost to their bases owing 
to the shortness of the upper tail-coverts; exterior nostrils wanting. Food: fish. 
Range: cosmopolitan. 
377. PHALAOROOORAX MELANOLEUCUS (YieilL). 
Pied Cormorant. 
a. Hydrocorax melanolencus (1) Vieill., Nouv. Diet. 1817, VIII, 88. 
b. Carbo dimidiatus (1) Less., Tr. d’Orn. 1831, 604 (ex Cuv. MS.); (2) Finsch, Neu Guinea 
1865, 183; (3) Rosenb., Zool. Garten 1881, 167; (4) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 
127, 128. 
