PIED CORMOEANT. 
Had. lie given the reference he might have seen that Erandt’s name had 
priority. Gould’s names were accepted for over thirty years when Ogilvie- 
Grant, in the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, Vol. XXVI., 
concluded that the Neozelanic and Australian birds classed under P. varius 
were distinct, and for the latter introduced Carho hypoleucos of Brandt. He 
showed how similar the two Australian species were and gave figures of the 
chin and face feathering. Since then Ogilvie-Grant’s determination has 
been accepted without question, but upon investigating the matter closely 
I find Brandt gave the following description : “ Caput et collum supra, nec 
non dorsum, uropygium hypochondria et femora atra ex viridi sericea. 
Tectrices alarum grisese ex atro virescente anguste marginatse. Cauda 
quadrata, breviuscula cum tectricibus atra. Capitis latera, gula, colli 
anterior pars et latera, pectus, abdomen et crissum Candida. Angulus 
oris, nec non mandibulse basis nuda. Pedes atri. Longitude a rostri 
apice ad caudse apicem 2' 2" 9"'. Patria ? ” 
The characters “ Cauda . . . breviuscula . . . Angulus oris, nec non 
mandibulse basis nuda ” fix the name on to the bird called by Ogilvie-Grant 
P. gouldi, but which I now show to have two prior names, H, fuscescens 
Vieillot and C. hypoleucos Brandt. The only name available for the present 
bird is C. v. perthi, which I proposed for the Western form but which for the 
present work I do not recognise as distinct. 
The bird figured and described is a male collected on Lake Albert, South 
Australia, on the 1st of March, 1912, by Captain S. A. White, and is the type 
of Hypoleucus varius whitei. 
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