GRACULUS. 
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Hah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Capo York, Rockingham 
Bay, Wide Bay District, South Coast New Guinea. {'Ramsay.') 
Genus GRACULUS, Linncnis. 
GRACULUS NOYiE-HOLL AND I JE, Stephens. 
Australian Cormorant. 
Gould , Ifandbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. ii., sp. 652, p. 488. 
This bird is very common in nearly every part of Australia and 
the whole of Tasmania. It builds a nest of sticks and aquatic 
herbage, often placed on a Polygonum bush or Casuarina over¬ 
hanging the water. Eggs two in number for a sitting, although 
frequently one only is found, in form they are elongated ovals, of a 
pale bluish-white, the surface of the shell being almost entirely 
hidden by a rough coating of lime. Length (A) 2'45 x 16 inches; 
(B) 2-47 x 1-65 inches. 
Specimens in the Maclcayan Museum Collection give the 
following measurements: — length (A) 2-38 x 1*45 inches; (B) 
2-52 x P43 inches. 
Hah. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay 
District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South 
Wales, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West and South- 
West Australia. {Ramsay.) 
GRACULUS VARIUS, Gmelin. 
Pied Cormorant. 
Gould. Handhh. Bds. Aust., Yol. ii., sp. 653, p. 490. 
The late Mr. S. White, of the Reed Beds, South Australia, found 
this species breeding in great numbers during the month of 
November, on some islands off the South Australian coast, the 
nidification is similar to that of the foregoing species, the eggs 
