WHITE-BREASTED CORMORANT. 
notorious that the localities West Australia, Tasmania, and Timor were 
wrongly interchanged in numerous cases in connection with Peron and 
Lesueur’s collection, and it is also well known that these investigators never 
visited New Zealand. I therefore wrote to Paris, but the authorities were 
unwilling to risk the forwarding as the specimen was old and valuable. I 
then had coloured drawings of the heads of the two Australian species made, 
showing the differences in the bare parts, which do not alter from immature 
to adult. I forwarded these to M. Menegaux with a request that he would 
carefully compare these and decide to which the specimen was referable. M. 
Menegaux, to whom my thanks are tendered, made the examination and 
also sent me a drawing of the head of the type of Vieillot’s species. These 
fixed the name on to the present species, not on to P. Tiypoleucm, as I had 
anticipated on account of Pucheran’s reference to P. varius Gmelin. The 
reason is that Pucheran was quite unaware of the differences between the 
species which he probably had not in the collection under his care. HeUmayr 
does not mention anything about the name in his Avifauna of Timor, nor 
does he include either P. gouldi or P. Jiy'poleucus in the list. 
The species is rare or unknown at Shark’s Bay, West Australia, where 
Peron and Lesueur collected, while it is abundant at their other coUecting- 
ground, Bass Straits. I therefore designated as type locality of Vieillot’s 
bird, Tasmania. 
The bird figured and described is a female collected on Peake Islands, 
south of West Australia, on the 14th of May, 1906. 
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