THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Garbo gouldi tunneyi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 88, 1912 ; South-west 
Australia. 
Garbo fuscescens Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p, 6, 1913, 
Garbo fuscescens fuscescens Mathews, ib., p. 7. 
Garbo fuscescens tunneyi Mathews, ib., p. 7. 
Hypoleucus fuscescens Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 96, 1913, 
Distribution : New South Wales ; Victoria ; Tasmania ; South Australia ; South-west 
Australia. 
Adult male. Head, hind-neck, entire back, outer sides of the thighs and under wing- 
coverts glossy blue-black with white plumes intermixed on the sides of the nape, 
upper hind-neck, and sides of the rump ; scapulars and wings oil-green with very 
narrow black margins to the feathers ; quills uniform dark brown ; tail greenish- 
black ; sides of the face, throat, fore-neck and entire under-surface of the body 
pure white. Bill dark horn, base and bare space purple ; iris green ; feet black. 
Total length 700 mm. ; culmen 54, wing 273, tail 107, tarsus 60. 
Adult fenude. Similar to the adult male but slightly smaller. Culmen 50 mm., wing 270, 
tail 107, tarsus 54. 
Immature. Distinguished chiefly by the brown on the upper-surface, sides of the body, 
and the outer thighs. 
Young. Similar to the above but darker brown, and the head and bind-neck narrowly 
streaked with white. 
Nest. Placed on a reef or on rocks and composed of seaweed, saltbush, etc. ; outside 
dimensions 18 by 4 inches, egg cavity about 9 inches by 2. 
Eggs. Clutch, two or three, similar to those of other members of the family. Axis 57 
to 60 mm., diameter 36 to 38. 
Breeding-season. November, December and January. 
The credit of the discovery of this fine Cormorant has generally been 
given to Gould, but as I will hereafter more fully explain, it had been 
described twenty years previously by Vieillot, having been brought back 
to France from Tasmania by Peron and Lesueur. 
Very little is, however, yet known of its life-history, as the succeeding 
meagre notes show. 
Mr. J. W. Mellor’s notes read : “ This is a thoroughly coastal bird, being 
very plentiful on aU the islands in the Gulfs about the South Australian 
Coast, and also along the Victorian Coast and Tasmania, and very thick in 
Bass Straits. In St. Vincent’s Gulf and Spencer’s Gulf, South Australia, I 
have seen them in large flocks, also on the rocky reefs and sand spits on 
Kangaroo Island, South Australia, where in the early days they bred in large 
rookeries. In an expedition to Spencer’s Gulf, South Australia, in the 
Departmental Steamer ‘ Governor Musgrave,’ in connection with the 
Adelaide Congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of 
Science, in January, 1907, I had the honour of being the Ornithologist, and 
landed on Dangerous Reef on Jan. 16th, where we found this bird in large . 
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