Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum Volume 26
British Museum. Dept. of Zoology
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, Sept. 13, 2013)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...0-45. Mus. Rothschild: Cook's Straits, 4 Feb., 1895. Hab. Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand. 20. Phalacrocorax onslowi. Graculus carunculatus, Hutton (nee Gmel.), Ibis, 1872, p. 240 Chatham Is.; Travers, Tr. X. Zeal. last, v. p. 221 (1873) Pitt I.. Phalacrocorax carunculatus, Hutton (nee Gmel.), Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. v. p. 224 (1873); Butler, B. N. Zeal. p. 332, pi. left-hand fig. (1873) nee syn.j; id. Tr. N. Zeal. hist. ix. p. 338, pi. xv. fig. 1 (1877) Chatham Is.; id. Man. B. N. Zeal. p. 93, pi. xxiv. fig. 1 (1882) descrip. & pi. only. Phalacrocorax cirrhatus, Butler (nee Giiiel.), Man.B. N. Zeal. p. 93 (1882) nee local.. Phalacrocorax onslowi, Forbes, Ibis, 1893, p. 533 Chatham Is.; Buller, Tr. N. Zeal. /t.xxvii. p. 129 189o). Phalacrocorax rothschildi, Forbes, Ibis, 1893, pp. 535537, 540 Chatham Is.) Phalacrocorax imperialis, Buller (ncr. King), B. N. Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 153, pi. ixxviii. fig. 2 (1888) Chatham Is.. Adult in bre&liny-plumage (March). Differs from P. cartmculatus in its much smaller size and in possessing a well-developed crest; back of the head and neck glossed with purplish or steel-blue; lower back and rump similarly coloured. Nasal wattles welldeveloped. The alar bar is always, and the dorsal patch generally well-developed, and in the most adult examples some at least of the outer scapulars are white. Tail composed of 12 feathers. "Caruncles at base of bill yellow; skin round eye blue, between eye and month orange; legs scarlet" (Buller). Total length about 25 inches, culmen from feathers on forehead to tip 2-15, depth to cutting-edge at nostril 0-35, wing 10'4, tail 4-5, tarsus 2-55, outermost toe and claw 3-9. Adult in non-breeding plumaye. Similar to the above, but without a crest....