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margins of the orbit blue; bill of a flesh-colour, veined with 
slate-blue, and becoming suffused over the top and towards 
the end; cutting edges of the terminal half and nail yellow ; 
legs of a pale greenish-slate-colour. 
Plotus nov^e-hollandi^ Gould. 
Plotus novce-hollandice Math. p. 37. 
a. $ . Gascoyne River, 12th Sept. 
Iris light buff, freckled with grey; bill pale yellowish, dull 
green along the culmen; bare skin on the throat yellow ; 
legs whitish-buff, tinged with pale bluish; feet and webs 
pale yellow. 
Total length, measured in the flesh, 38 inches. 
[The Australian Darter was a rare bird.— G. C. >8.] 
Phalacrocorax melanoleucus (Vieill.). 
Phalacrocorax melanoleucus Math. p. 37. 
a . ? . Big Grove, 30th March. 
b. $ . Oyster Harbour, 2nd March. 
Iris dark brown; upper mandible dark slate-blue, tinged 
with brown along the culmen, lower mandible yellow ; 
pouch yellow ; legs black. 
[The Little Cormorant was very plentiful around Albany 
and Perth, but was not observed at Carnarvon.— G. C. £.] 
Phalacrocorax hypoleucus (Brandt). 
Phalacrocorax hypoleucus Math. p. 37. 
a , b. <$ et $ imm. Bernier Island, 7th & 11th July. 
Adult. Iris dull emerald-green, orbits and skin below the 
eye bright peacock-blue, lores and a narrow line above and 
below the eye bright orange-yellow ; pouch of a flesh-colour, 
pinkish at the base; bill slate-black; legs black. 
Immature. Differs from the adult in having the orbits and 
skin beneath the eye of a flesh-colour tinged with bluish; 
and the sides, under parts, and nail of the bill dull yellowish, 
tinged and mottled with slate-colour. 
[The Pied Cormorant was very plentiful from Perth 
northwards to Carnarvon, but was not observed around 
Albany.— G. C. S.] 
