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Show 652 MESSRS. S C L A T E R A N D S A L V I N O N B I R D S [June 4, and the tips of both mandibles brown; feet coral-red. The stomach contained cuttlefish about 3\ and 4 inches long, allied to Gonatus amcenus, and the caudal portion of a fish. There were a great many lice on this bird (preserved in a tube)."-/. M. 139, female, Raine Island. " Eyes hazel; feet red ; bill light blue, red towards the base. Stomach contained fish and cuttlefish."-J. M. 7. SULA CYANOPS, Sund. Sula cyanops, Sund. Phys. Sallsk. Tidsckr. 1837, p. 218. Dysporus cyanops, Finsch et Hartl. Orn. Centr.-Pol. p. 252. 137 and 138, females, Raine Island. " Eyes yellow, skin of the throat black, legs and feet slate-colour. Stomach contained fish and cuttlefish."-J. M. 8. PHALACROCORAX IMPERIALIS. Phalacrocorax imperialis, King, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 20. Phalacrocorax carunculatus, Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1870, p. 500. 637, male, Core Harbour, Messier Channel. " Eyes brown. Stomach had shells."-J. M. This Cormorant appears to be different from the P. carunculatus of N e w Zealand, with which we have hitherto united it, having a broad white patch on the middle of the back in the adult plumage, no crest, and the white extending further over the cheeks. Both species have the white bar on the upper wing-coverts. The species of the Falkland Islands which has hitherto been called Ph. carunculatus (Scl. P.Z.S. 1860, p. 391 ; Abbott, 'Ibis,' 1861, p. 166) is again different, having a recurved crest and the caruncles on the fronUargely developed. It should probably stand as P. albiventris, Lesson's Carbo albiventer (Trait. d'Orn. p. 604) being apparently based upon the young of this species. 9. PHALACROCORAX VERRUCOSUS. Halieus (Hypoleucus) verrucosus, Cab. Journ. f. O. 1875, p. 450. Halieus verrucosus, Cab. et Reich. Journ. f. O. 1876, p. 359, tab. 1. Phalacrocorax verrucosus, Sharpe, Zool. of Kerguelen, p. 49. a, male, 6, male, c, male (young), tBetsv Cove, Kerguelen Land, January 1874. d, female, [ e, female, /, sex ind., J The series of this Shag is quite sufficient to warrant us in adhering to the species as distinct. The principal characters are clearly pointed out by Dr. Cabanis in his original description ; and a good figure is given of the adult male under the second reference given above. Not one of the six specimens, of which a, b, and, apparently,/are adult, shows any traces of the white line along the upper wing-coverts |