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Genus MICROCARBO Bonaparte. 
Microcarbo Bonaparte, Coraptes Rendus, Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. xliii. 
p. 577, Sept. 1856. Type (by original designation): Felecanus 
pygmceus Pallas. 
Haiietor Heine, Joum. fur Orn., May 1860, p. 202 : new name for Microcarbo Bp. 
Mdanocarbo Bernstein, Bijdr. Taal- Land- en \olkenk. Ned.-Indio, ser. 4, 
vol. vii. p. 119, after June 1883. Type (by monotypy): Ilydrocorax melano- 
leucos Vieillot. 
Microcarbo melanoleucus (Vieillot). 
Distr. —New Zealand, Australia, and New Guinea. 
Microcarbo melanoleucus melanoleucus (Vieillot). (26-398.) 
Dudrocorax melanoleucos Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d llist. Nat. vol. viii. 
‘ p. 88, March loth, 1817: “ Australasia ” =New South Wales. 
(Fig. Gould, vii. pi. 70.) 
Carlo dimidiatus Lesson, Traite d’Orn. 8 livr. p. 604, June 11th, 1831: New 
South Wales. € 
Phalacrocoraw jlavirhynchus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. pt. iv., App. p. 8, 
April 1st, 1838 : New South Wales. 
Graucalus flavirostria Gray, in Dieffenbach’s Trav. vol. n. p. 201 (mid-Jan.), 
1843 : emendation of jlavirhynchus. 
Halieus leucomelas Gloger, Journ. fiir Orn., Jan. 185/, p. 14: emendation 
of melanoleucus. 
Distr. —Southern Australia. 
Microcarbo melanoleucus melvillensis (Mathews). 
Cctrbo melanoleucus melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. 
pt. 3, p. 74, June 28th, 1912 : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
(Fig. Math. pi. 223.) 
Distr. —Northern Australia and New Guinea to Pelew Islands. 
Microcarbo melanoleucus brevirostris (Gould). (26-400.) 
Fhalacrocorax brevirostris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1837, 
Nov. 21st, p. 26: New Zealand. (Fig. Buller, lsted. pi. 30.) 
Carlo jlavagula Peale, U.S. Explor. Exped. vol. viii. p. 270, Oct. 1848 : Bay 
of Islands, North Island. 
Felecanus carboides Ell man, Zool. 1861, p. 7472: Ne w Zealand. 
Phalacrocorax jinschii Sharpe, Voy. ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror,’ App. p. 34, 1875 : 
New Zealand. 
Distr. —New Zealand. 
Genus STICTOCARBO Bp. 
Stictocarbo Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. xli. 
p. 1115, Dec. 24th, 1855. Type (by subsequent designation, 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vol. xxvi. p. 331 (pref. 
Sept. 30th), 1893) : Felecanus punctaius Sparrman. 
