Order PELECAN1F0RME8 
No. 275. 
Family PHALACROCOBACID^. 
MESOCARBO ATER ATER. 
LITTLE BLACK CORMORANT. 
(Plate 220.)* 
Carbo atbe Lesson, Traite d’Om., p. 604, 1831 ; Sharks Bay, West Australia. 
Garbo ater Lesson, Traite d’Orn., p. 604, 1831 ; Pucheran, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1850, p. 627. 
Carbo sulcirostris Brandt, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb., Vol. III., p. 56. 1837 ; New South 
Wales. 
PhaUbcrocorax sulcirostris Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. m., p. 185, 1844 ; Gould, Birds 
Austr., Vol. VII., pi. 67, 1848 ; MiiUer, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1869, p. 280 ; 
Diggles, Birds Austr., Vol. II., pi. 120, 1877 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. XXVI., p. 376, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 101, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 972, 1901 ; HaU, Emu, Vol. II., p. 68, 1902 ; 
Le Souef, ih., p. 158, 1903 ; HiU, ib., p. 167, 1903 ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 211, 
1904 ; Le Souef, ib., Vol. IV., p. 138, 1905 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., 
p. 206, 1905 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 101, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., 
p. 155, 1907 ; Ingram, Ibis 1907, p. 396 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 37, 
1908 ; Mellor, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 186, 1908 ; Mattingley, ib., Vol. VIII., pp. 20, 21, 
1908 ; Cole, ib., pp. 76, 77, 1908 ; Whitlock, ib., p. 194, 1909 ; Hill, ib., p. 223, 1909 ; 
Mathews, ib., Vol. IX., p. 239, 1910 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 173 ; HuU, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1909, Vol. XXXIV., p. 668, 1910 ; Littler, Handb. Birds 
Tasm., p. 198, 1910 ; Mathews, Emu, Vol. X., p. 107, 1910 ; Crossman, ib., p. Ill, 
1910; Hill, ib., p. 265, 1911 ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 20, 1911; Stone, ib., 
Vol. XII., p. 120, 1912 ; Hill, ib., p. 254, 1913 ; Orton and Sandland, ib., Vol. 
XIII., p. 76, 1913 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 326, 
1912 ; White, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 124, 1914 ; Macgilhvray, ib., p. 147, 1914. 
Graculus sulcirostris Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 667, 1845 ; Reichenbach, Synops. 
Av. Nat., pi. 64, f. 2547-8, 1850 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. m., p. 129, 
1871 ; Pelzeln, Ibis 1873, p. 124 ; North, Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. II., p. 38, 1892. 
Microcarbo stictocephalus Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 178, 1856 ; New South 
Wales. 
Haliceus stictocephalus Bonaparte, ib. 
Qraculus stictocephalus Gray, Ibis 1862, p. 252 ; id., Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. iii., p. 129, 
1871 ; Ramsay, Proc, Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 203, 1877 ; id.. Tab. List Austr., 
Birds, p. 25, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 367, 1890. 
* The Plate is lettered Garho sulcirostris. 
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