Double-crested Cormorant. — Perhaps the most interesthig event 

 of a very pleasant day spent by Section B on a field trip to De- 

 wees Island on December 6, was the taking of a female Double- 

 crested Cormorant {Phalacrocoraz auritus). The bird was ob- 

 served in the narrow creek behind the Isle of Palms and on the 

 approach of the boat dove repeatedly. The failure of the cor- 

 morant to take wing was unexplained at the time. After being 

 watched for a while by the party the bird was shot as it came up 

 under the right bank of the creek, gasping badly. 



After removing the skin I dissected the bird and found that its 

 inability to fly was probably due to a kind of tumor formed a- 

 gainst the upper back, an outgrowth of the left lung. The stom- 

 ach also was in a diseased state. It contained eight small fish, 

 mullet and mudfish, varying in length from two to six inches, 

 and a large nmnber of round worms, evidently parasites.^ The 

 unmounted skin of this specimen is preserved in the Charleston 

 Museum. — E. Burnham Chamberlain. 



Primary Cancer in the Lung of a Wild Double-crested Cormorant. 

 — On December 6, 1913, I received from the Charleston Museum a 

 dressed Double-crested Cormorant. Upon examination I found 

 that the right thorax was occupied by an ovoid tumor, about the 

 size of a pullet's egg, arising from the lower half of the lung of 

 this side, and, upon microscopical section, proving to be a cancer. 



The possibility of the origin of this tumor from some parasitic 

 or bacterial infection of the lung immediately suggests itself, but 

 careful examination failed to reveal any such features. Invasion 

 of other parts of the body by the cancer was not found. 



The existence of a cancer in any wild animal is a subject of 

 interesting speculation and a full report of this case will probably 

 be given to one of the scientific journals. — Kenneth M. Lynch, 

 M.D. 



Contents of Stomach of Double-crested Cormorant, — In the stom- 

 ach of the Double-crested Cormorant recorded above there were 



' The body of this cormorant was sent for examination to Dr. Kenneth M. Lynch, pro- 

 fessor of pathology in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina; the worms from the 

 stomach were referred to Mr. L. Wm. McGrath of the Museum staff. 



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