258 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [1895 



"I found the remains of one on Smith's Island, Va., in 

 May, 1894. It had been dead about a month, possibly more" 

 (Richmond). 



Family Anhingid^: — Darters. 



Anhinga anhinga (118). Anhmga. 



In the old collection of the Maryland Academy of Sciences 

 was a mounted specimen of the Anhinga, which Prof. Uhler 

 says, came from the Pocomoke River, but owing to the vicissi- 

 tudes through whic h the Academy has passed, I have been unable 

 to find the record of its acquisition. 



Family Phalacrocoeacid^ — Cormorants. 

 Phalacrocorax carbo (119). Cormorant. 



Audubon says, "it is rarely seen further south than the 

 extreme limits of Maryland, but from Chesapeake Bay east- 

 ward it becomes more plentiful" (vii, 418). A specimen may 

 occasionally visit us with the following species, as it goes 

 casually south as far as the Carolinas (A. O. U.). 



Phalacrocorax dilophus (120). Double-crested Cormorant. 



Regular, but not a common winter visitant near Baltimore. 

 Further down the Chesapeake, and on Chincoteague and Sine- 

 puxentBays, it is more numerous. Under date of April 13, 1893, 

 Mr. Wm. S.Walker, of Chestertown, writes me : " The only Cor- 

 morant I ever had in hand, I killed some five or six years ago 

 at Hail Creek, at the mouth of Chester River. I have since 

 that time seen one or more of the birds sitting on buoys in the 

 bay between here and Baltimore." The specimen mentioned was 

 in the old collection of the Maryland Academy of Sciences. 



At Ocean City single birds flew northward on June 8 and 



10, '94. 



"One was detected in the District of Columbia many years 

 ago" (A. C, 108). Mr. Geo. W. Duvall sent a specimen from 

 Annapolis to the Smithsonian (Smith. Rep., '72, 57). 



