LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Graucalus Gray, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 101, Sept. 1841. Type (by original designation) : P. carlo Linne. 
Not Graucalus Cuvier, Le Regne Anim., Vol. I., p. 341, Dec. 7th, 1816. 
Ecmeles Gistel, Naturg. Thierr. Schul., p. ix., (pref. Easter 1847) 1848. New name for Hydrocorax Vieillot. 
194. PHALACROCORAX CARBO. BLACK CORMORANT. 
[Pelecanus carlo Linne, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 133, Jan. 1st, 1758 : Europe. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 66 (pt. xxxiv.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 2, pi. 219, 
Feb. 17th, 1915. 
Phalacrocorax novashoUandife Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., pt. i., p. 93, Feb. 18th, 1826 : Tasmania, 
Phalacrocorax carboides Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 7, April 1838 : Tasmania. 
Carlo carlo westralis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 33, April 2nd, 1912 : Swan River, South-west 
Australia. 
Phalacrocorax carlo gracemeri Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. IV., pt. 2, p. 167, Feb. 17th, 1915: Gracemere, 
Queensland. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
CLXXVI. Genus MESOCARBO. 
Mesoearbo Mathews and Iredale, Ibis, 1913, p. 415, July 1st. Type (by original designation) : Carlo sulcirostris 
Brandt — C. ater Lesson. 
195. MESOCARBO ATER. LITTLE BLACK CORMORANT. 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 67 (pt. xxxv.). Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 2, pi. 220, Feb. 
17th, 1915. 
Carlo ater Lesson, Traite d’Orn., 8e livr., p. 604, June 11th, 1831 : Shark’s Bay, West Australia. 
Carlo sulcirostris Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Vol. III., p. 56, 1837 : New South Wales. 
Microcarlo stictocephalus Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 178, 1856 : New South Wales. 
Carlo squamatus Pelzeln, Ibis, 1873, p. 124, Jan. 1st. Nomen nudum. 
Mesocarlo ater territori Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. IV., pt. 2, p. 176, Feb. 17th, 1915 : Northern Territory. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
CLXXVII. Genus HYPOLEUCUS. 
Hypoleucus Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel, p. vii., 1852 (? 1853). Type (by original designation) : Pelecanus 
varius Gmelin. 
Leucocarlo Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 176, 1856. Type (by subsequent designation, Ogilvie- 
Grant, Cat. Birds Rrit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 331, 1898) : Carlo lougainvillii Lesson. 
196. HYPOLEUCUS VARIUS. PIED CORMORANT. 
[Pelecanus varius Gmelin, Syst. Nat., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 576, April 20th, 1789 : Queen Charlotte Sound, New 
Zealand. Extra-limital.] \\ 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 68 (pt. xi.), June 1st, 1843. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 2, pi. 222, Feb. 
17th, 1915. 
Carlo varius perthi Mathews ; Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 88, Sept. 18th, 1912 : Perth, West Australia. 
Hypoleuxus varius whitei Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. IV., pt. 2, p. 187, Feb. 17th, 1915: Lake Albert, South 
Australia. 
Distribution. Extra-tropical Australia and Tasmania. 
197. HYPOLEUCUS FUSCESCENS. WHITE-BREASTED CORMORANT. 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 69 (pt. xi.), June 1st, 1843. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 2, pi. 221, Feb. 
17th, 1915. 
Hydrocorax fuseeseens Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. VIII., p. 86, March 15th, 1817 : “ Australasie ” = 
Tasmania. 
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