Order PELECANIFORMES Family PHALACROCORACIDM. 
No. 277. 
HYPOLEUCUS VARIUS PERTHI. 
PIED COKMORANT. 
(Plate 222.)* 
Garbo varius perthi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 88, 1912 ; Perth, West 
Austraha. 
Phalacrocorax hypoleitcus (not Brandt 1837) Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pi. 68, 1843 ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p, 397, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 101, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 975, 
1901 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. I., p. 127, 1902 ; Shepherd, ib., Vol. II., p. 32, 1902 ; 
Hill, ib., p. 167, 1903 ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 210, 1904 ; Hill, ib., p. 229, 1904 ; 
Lawson, ib., Vol. IV., p. 132, 1905 ; MeUor, ib., pp. 159, 161, 1905 ; NichoUs, ib., 
Vol. V., p. 82, 1905 ; A. G. Campbell, ib., p. 145, 1906 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
2nd ed., p. 101, 1906 ; Ingram, Ibis 1907, p. 396 ; Mathews, Hand!. Birds Austral., 
p. 37, 1908 ; Mellor, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 186, 1908 ; Mattingley, ib., Vol. VIII., 
p. 22, 1908 ; Gibson, ib., p. 64, 1908 ; Gibson, ib., Vol. IX., p. 77, 1909 ; HaU, 
Emu, Vol. IX., p. 132, 1909 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 172 ; Campbell and 
White, Emu, Vol. X., p. 203, 1910 ; HiU, ib., p. 265, 1911 ; Stone, ib., Vol. XII., 
p. 120, 1912 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III. , p. 330, 1912 ; 
White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 182, 1913 ; Hill, ib., p. 254, 1913 ; Barnard, ib., 
Vol. XIII., p. 209, 1914. 
Hypoleucus varius Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 173, 1856 (part). 
Phalacrocorax varius (not Gmelin) Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 490, 1865 ; 
Walker, Ibis 1892, p. 258. 
Oraculus varius (not Gmelin) Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. iii., p. 128, 1871 (part) ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 203, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 24, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 365, 1890. 
Garbo varius hypoleucos Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 241, 1912. 
Garbo varius perthi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 88, 1912 ; Perth, West Australia. 
Hypoleucus varius hypoleucus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 96, 1913. 
Distribution. Northern Territory ; Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria, Tasmania; 
South Austraha ; South-west Austraha. 
Adult male. Sides of the upper-back, scapulars, upper- and under-surface of the wings 
dark oil-green with very narrow edgings to the feathers ; head, hind-neck, a narrow 
line on the middle of the upper-back and entire lower-back, rump, and upper tail- 
* The Plate is lettered Carho hypolemos. 
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