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Birds of Celebes: Phalacrocoracidae. 
(Marie d 6)\ Is. of Torres Straits (Macgillivray d 2, Voy. Alert d 3)\ Papuasia 
— New Guinea, Salawatti, Aru, Kei, Mysol, Waigiou (fide Salvadori d 2, d 7); 
Moluccas — Ceram, Amboina, Batcbian, Halmahera, Ternate (d 2, d 7)\ Timor 
(S. Muller c 3, Eiedel); Sumba (Eiedel dl2)\ Lombok (Everett 5); Celebes area 
— Djampea (Everett d 10)\ N. Celebes — Gorontalo (Forsten c 3, v. Rosenberg 
el, b 3, f 1, c 6, Riedel d 5, v. Mussclienbroek c 5); Pelew Islands (Tetens & 
Kubary c 4, d 6) \ ? New Zealand fRuller 4). 
About a dozen specimens of the Pied Cormorant have been collected in 
Celebes, all, apparently, on the large, shallow, weed-overgrown lake of Limbotto. 
Rosenberg says it is fairly common here and attracts attention to itself from 
its hahit of sunning itself on branches of trees overhanging the water, with 
half-expanded wings after the fashion of a heraldic eagle. 
The Little Pied Cormorant has a rather short and strong bill, yellow in 
colour except on the culmen, and with a slight denticulation towards the end 
of the tomium. The tail is rather long, the feathers twelve in number. This 
is the number in the Shag, P. graculus, but the Common Cormorant, P. carbo^ 
has fourteen. Gould (1) represents P. melanohucns with its auricular and occi- 
pital feathers very smartly brushed up, so as to form a sort of side-fringe to 
the hind head and nape; this mode of bearing the feathers is not apparent from 
skins. Though very distinct as a species, we have been unable to find sufficient 
reason for separating it generically from Phalacrocorax. 
378. PHALAOROCORAX SULOIROSTRIS Bidt. 
Little Black Cormorant. 
Phalacrocorax sulcirostris (Brandt); (1) Gray, List Anseres Brit. Mus. 1844, 185; (Ilj Gld., 
B. Austr. 18-18, VH, pi. 67; (3) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 598. 
a. Graculus sulcirostris (1) Gray, Gen. B. 1845, IH, 6G7, Nr. 11; (II) Rchb., Natatores 
t. 316, figs. 2547—48; (3) Scbl., Mus. P.-B., Pelecani, 1863, 13; (4) v. Musschenbr., 
N. T. Ned. Ind. 1876, XXXVI, 381; (5) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber’s Reise 
1893, in, 306. 
b. Phalacrocorax stictocephalus (Bp.); (1) Gld., Hb. B. Austr. 1865, H, 495. 
c. Microcarbo sulcirostris (1) Salvad. , Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 365; (2) id., Om. Pap. 1882, 
m, 408; (3) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 188. 
d. Graculus stictocephalus (1) Rams., Tab. List 1888, 25; (2) North, Nests & Eggs B. 
Austr. 1889, 367. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori c 2. 
Figures and descriptions. Gould II, b 7; Reichenbacli (X II', Schlegel ct 3, Salvad. c 2, 
Adult. Glossy green-black, the feathers of the back, scapulars and upper wing-coverts of a 
mealy gi'eyisli green appearance with black edges; superciliary region and sides of 
occiput with small white streaks; wing 260 mm; tail 160; tarsus 45; outer toe with 
claw 81; exposed culmen 49 (ad., locality uncertain — Nr. 11667). 
A second example (West Australia, Nr. 11105) has the exposed culmen only 
38 mm long; wing 234. 
“Irides deep grass-green; orbits and gular pouch brownish black, the pouch 
strongly tinged with blue; feet black” (Gould II). 
